Python HTML Data Collection

gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk
Mon Jun 24 05:56:48 EDT 2002


Paul Barrett wrote:

>    I'm fairly new to Python but I do have a little bit of experience 
> from
> a class I took which taught some Python. I'm working at a job where I
> query a CGI script, collect the data and then post it to another CGI
> script. My main question is whether I could write a python script which
> would automate this process. Both of these scripts are on external
> websites and I only need a select amount of the data. I thought that if
> any language would do this job, then it would be Python, but I haven't
> been able to find any information for something like this. Do you folks
> have any suggestions?

See urllib[2].urlopen


                     Graham



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