On Apr 24, 5:50 am, James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know of an example, however modest, of a screenscraper > authored in python? I am using Firefox. > > Basically, I am answering problems via my browser and being scored for > each problem. I have a tendency to go past my peak for training > efficiency, so I would like to scrape the result page for each problem I > answer, compile statistics, and have a program alert me when I should > stop (based on score and accuracy--assuming training value is related to > changes in these metrics). > > I have no idea how to go about writing such a beast and I am hoping that > I could get some pointers or an example that could get me going in the > right direction. > > Parsing, etc, is not a problem, but I'm not exactly sure how I might > interface python with Firefox, forwarding scraped pages to my browser > (or forwarding from the browser to the scraper). > > Thanks in advance for any help or advice. > > James
Hey James, This might be of interest to you: http://www.screen-scraper.com/support/docs/scripting_in_python.php Scott -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
