[Baypiggies] lxml for webscraping reference

Shannon -jj Behrens jjinux at gmail.com
Sun Jan 18 03:25:47 CET 2009


On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Christopher Lee-Messer
<chris.leemesser at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Thank you to everyone involved in organizing and recording last meeting.
>
> I think Alex Martinelli suggested using python-lxml instead of
> BeautifulSoup.  I had just been reading about this last month in Ian
> Bickings blog and had saved the page.
>
> http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/12/10/lxml-an-underappreciated-web-scraping-library/
>
> I thought I might pass along the link.

lxml + BeautifulSoup = good stuff

I also blogged about it here:
http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2008/10/python-some-notes-on-lxml.html

Best Regards,
-jj

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