On Jul 12, 10:22 pm, Jon Rosebaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-07-12 04:42:25 -0500, kublai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > For a project, I need to develop a corpus of online news stories. I'm > > looking for an application that, given the url of a web page, "copies" > > the rendered text of the web page (not the source HTNL text), opens a > > text editor (Notepad), and displays the copied text for the user to > > examine and save into a text file. Graphics and sidebars to be > > ignored. The examples I have come across are much too complex for me > > to customize for this simple job. Can anyone lead me to the right > > direction? > > You may find BeautifulSoup or templatemaker to be of assistance: > > http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2007/07/06/0128
Thanks all for your suggestions. I will try first the Lynx solution. Cheers, gk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
