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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 10:00:46 -0400<br>
From: James <<a href="mailto:jtp@nc.rr.com">jtp@nc.rr.com</a>><br>
Subject: [Tutor] Grabbing data from changing website<br>
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<br><br>>>urllib2 will grab the HTML. BeautifulSoup will parse it and allow<br>>>fairly easy access. My writeup on each:</blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'll second Kent's vote for BeautifulSoup.</blockquote><div>I had never done any web programming, but using BS I quickly wrote a small program that downloads an image from a site.<br>The image changes daily, and the filename & directory are obviously unique. BS made it very easy.<br>
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