On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install python-pyrss2gen python-beautifulsoup # download ScrapeNFeed
Python: Not sure what's wrong with this but it's most of the code you'll need: ----------- from urllib import urlopen from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup from PyRSS2Gen import RSSItem, Guid import ScrapeNFeed import re url='http://jobs.spb.ca.gov/exams_title.cfm' job_html = urlopen(url).read() job_soup = BeautifulSoup(job_html) jobs = job_soup.findAll('strong', text=re.compile('.*RESEARCH.*')) class JobFeed(ScrapeNFeed.ScrapedFeed): def HTML2RSS(self, headers, body): items = [RSSItem(title=job, link=url, description=job_soup.h2.string.strip()) for job in jobs] self.addRSSItems(jobs) JobFeed.load(job_soup.title.string.strip(), url, 'jobs.rss', 'jobs.pickle', managingEditor='', ) On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Joe Larson <j...@joelarson.com> wrote: > Hello list! > > I am a Python Beginner. I thought a good beginning project would be to use > the Portable Python environment http://www.portablepython.com/ with > Beautiful Soup http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ and Scrape > 'N' Feed http://www.crummy.com/software/ScrapeNFeed/ to create and RSS > feed of this page http://jobs.spb.ca.gov/exams_title.cfm - ideally > filtering just for positions with the string 'Research Analyst'. > > In my day job I work on the Windows OS (hence the Portable Python) - at > home I use Ubuntu but also carry Portable Ubuntu as well. > > I just wanted to shoot this to the list - see if anyone had any suggestions > or tips. I'm reading O'Reilly's Learning Python and The Python Tutorial, but > it's still very challenging as this is my first programming language. Thanks > all! Sincerely ~ joelar > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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