view page source or save after load

[alex23]

zephron2000 wrote:
> I need to either:
> 1. View the page source of a webpage after it loads
> or
> 2. Save the webpage to my computer after it loads (same as File > Save
> Page As)
> urllib is not sufficient (using urlopen or something else in urllib
> isn't going to do the trick)

You don't really say _why_ urllib.urlopen "isn't going to do the
trick". The following does what you've described:

import urllib
page = urllib.urlopen('http://some.address')
open('saved_page.txt','w').write(page).close()

If you're needing to use a browser directly and you're running under
Windows, try the Internet Explorer Controller library, IEC:

import IEC
ie = IEC.IEController()
ie.Navigate('http://some.address')
page = ie.GetDocumentHTML()
open('saved_page.txt','w').write(page.encode('iso-8859-1')).close()

(You can grab IEC from http://www.mayukhbose.com/python/IEC/index.php)

Hope this helps.

-alex23