[Tutor] Grabbing data from changing website

[Tony Cappellini]

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> >>urllib2 will grab the HTML. BeautifulSoup will parse it and allow
> >>fairly easy access. My writeup on each:



> I'll second Kent's vote for BeautifulSoup.

I had never done any web programming, but using BS I quickly wrote a small
program that downloads an image from a site.
The image changes daily, and the filename & directory are obviously unique.
BS made it very easy.
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