<SMac2347 <at> comcast.net> writes: > > 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!
I would approach it like this... import lxml.html QUERY = '//tr[@bgcolor="#F1F3F4"][td[starts-with(@class, "body_cols")]]' url = 'http://www.skadden.com/Index.cfm?contentID=44&alphaSearch=A' tree = lxml.html.parse(url).getroot() trs = tree.xpath(QUERY) for tr in trs: tds = [el.text_content() for el in tr.iterfind('td')] print tds hth Jon. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
