On 02/01/2011 04:20 PM, Tracubik wrote: > Hi all! > i'm writing a notification program and i'm quite new to python. > The program have to check every 5 minutes a particular website and alert > me when a particular sentence ("user online") is in the html. > i've thinked to use a text browser (lynx) to retrieve the html and parse > the output in python as a normal text file. > Do you have any better idea? > > thanks > Medeo
urllib2 http://docs.python.org/howto/urllib2.html If you need fancy-shmancy parsing, look into: http://docs.python.org/library/htmlparser.html Or you can treat the returned site as a string and just search for that sentence. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list