On 4/26/2012 19:54, smac2...@comcast.net wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having some difficulty generating the output I want from web
> scraping. Specifically, the script I wrote, while it runs without any
> errors, is not writing to the output file correctly. It runs, and
> creates the output .txt file; however, the file is blank (ideally it
> should be populated with a list of names).
>
> I took the base of a program that I had before for a different data
> gathering task, which worked beautifully, and edited it for my
> purposes here. Any insight as to what I might be doing wrote would be
> highly appreciated. Code is included below. Thanks!
>
> import os
> import re
> import urllib2
>
> outfile = open("Skadden.txt","w")
>
> A = 1
> Z = 26
>
> for letter in range(A,Z):
>
> for line in
> urllib2.urlopen("http://www.skadden.com/Index.cfm?contentID=44&alphaSearch="+str(letter)):
You need
alphaSearch=a
but you're using
alphaSearch=1
> x = line
> if '"><B>' in line:
You should search for ' ><B>'.
> start=x.find('"><B>"')
Ditto.
> end= x.find('</B></A></nobr></td>',start)
> name=x[start:end]
You should use start+5 to skip ' ><B>'.
> outfile.write(name+"\n")
> print name
Your code is bound to break over and over (you should do some smarter parsing),
but here's a working version:
--->
import os
import re
import urllib2
outfile = open("Skadden.txt","w")
A = ord('a')
Z = ord('z')
for letter in range(A, Z):
for line in
urllib2.urlopen("http://www.skadden.com/Index.cfm?contentID=44&alphaSearch="+chr(letter)):
x = line
if ' ><B>' in line:
start=x.find(' ><B>')
end= x.find('</B></A></nobr></td>',start)
name=x[start+5:end]
outfile.write(name+"\n")
print name
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