kublai wrote:
> 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?
Super-simplistic:
>>> import lxml.etree as et
>>> parser = et.HTMLParser()
>>> tree = et.parse("http://the/page.html";, parser)
>>> print tree.xpath("string(/html/body)")
http://codespeak.net/lxml/
You may want to use the incredibly versatile "lxml.html.clean" module first to
remove any annoying content. It's not released yet but available in a branch:
http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/branch/html/
Stefan
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