yaru22 wrote: > I'd like to create a program that validates bunch of urls against the > w3c markup validator (http://validator.w3.org/) and store the result in > a file. > > Since I don't know network programming, I have no idea how to start > coding this program. > > I was looking at the python library and thought urllib or urllib2 may > be used to make this program work. > > But I don't know how to send my urls to the w3c validator and get the > result.
this should get you going, I think: >>> import urllib >>> uri = "http://www.python.org"; >>> f = urllib.urlopen("http://validator.w3.org/check?uri="; + uri) >>> print f.headers Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:52:33 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_perl/1.999.21 Perl/v5.8.4 Content-Language: en X-W3C-Validator-Recursion: 1 X-W3C-Validator-Status: Valid X-W3C-Validator-Errors: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 >>> print f.headers["x-w3c-validator-status") Valid >>> uri = "http://www.cnn.com"; >>> f = urllib.urlopen("http://validator.w3.org/check?uri="; + uri) >>> print f.headers["x-w3c-validator-status"] Invalid >>> print f.headers["x-w3c-validator-errors"] 39 </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
