[Tutor] What lib should I use?

python nutter pythonnutter at gmail.com
Mon May 26 02:37:27 CEST 2008


On Mon, 26 May 2008 01:51:45 +0200, "Julia" <midnightjulia at gmail.com> said:
> Hi!
>
> I need to write a program what can do two things:
>
> 1) get data from the website
> 2) send information from a textfield (e.g. like a google search)

Sounds like you are web scraping or wanting to make a web spider.

Check out
a) urllib
b) urllib2
c) beautifulsoup

a + b are built-ins. c you have to download and install from
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Cheers,
Python Nutter
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