On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 13:40 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:09:52 +1000, Graham Feeley wrote:
>
> > Can someone steer me to scripts / modules etc on webscraping please???
>
> The definitive documentation on the built-in Python modules can be found
> here: http://docs.python.org/modindex.html
>
> The ActiveState Python cookbook should be useful, e.g.
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/391929
>
> Also see Beautiful Soup:
> http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Beautiful soup is not always speedy, but it sure is the most flexible
scraper I've ever came across. I hacked together a web forum-to-nntp
gateway using Beautiful Soup. Worked very well.
Michael
>
> And of course, GIYF ("Google Is Your Friend") http://www.google.com which
> leads me to:
>
> http://sig.levillage.org/?p=588
> http://sig.levillage.org/2005/03/11/web-scraping-with-python-part-ii/
> http://wiki.tcl.tk/2915 (not focused on Python, but may still be useful).
>
>
> > Ultimately I would like someone to write a script for me.
>
> Are you offering to hire a developer?
>
>
> --
> Steven.
>
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