samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am a total python newbie, and I need help writing a script.
>
> This is what I want to do:
>
> There is a list of links at http://www.rentalhq.com/fulllist.asp. Each
> link goes to a page like,
> http://www.rentalhq.com/store.asp?id=907%2F272%2D4425, that contains a
> company name, address, phone, and fax. I want extract each page, parse
> this information, and export it to a comma delimited text file, or tab
> delimited. The important information in each page is:
>
> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
> style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%"
> id="AutoNumber1">
> <tr>
> <td width="100%" colspan="2">
> <h2 style="text-align: center; margin-top:2; margin-bottom:2;
> line-height:14px" class="title">
> <font size="4">United Rentals Inc.</font>
> </h2>
>
> <h3 style="text-align: center; margin-top:4;
> margin-bottom:4">3401 Commercial Dr.
> Anchorage AK, 99501-3024
> </h3>
> <p style="text-align: center; margin-top:4; margin-bottom:4">
> <a target="_blank"
> href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3401+Commercial+Dr%2E Anchorage AK
> 99501-3024 ">
> <!-- <a target="_blank"
> href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?city=Anchorage&state=AK&address=3401+Commercial+Dr.&zip=99501-3024&country=&zoom=8";>-->
> <img height="15" src="Scraps/Rental_Images/map.gif" width="33"
> border="0"></a>
> </p>
> </td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td width="50%" valign="top">
> <p style="text-align: center; line-height:100%; margin-top:0;
> margin-bottom:0">
> </p>
> <p style="text-align: center; line-height: 100%; margin-top:0;
> margin-bottom:0">
> <b>Phone</b> - 907/272-4425<br>
> <b>Fax</b> - 907/272-9683 </p>
>
> So from that I want output like :
>
> United Rentals Inc.,3401 Commercial
> Dr.,Anchorage,AK,"995013024","9072724425","9072729683"
>
> or
>
> United Rentals Inc. 3401 Commercial
> Dr. Anchorage AK 995013024 9072724425 9072729683
>
>
> I have been messing around with beautiful soup
> (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/index.html) but haven't
> gotten very far. (specially because the html is so sloppy)
>
> Any help would be really appreciated! Just point me in the right
> direction, what to use, examples... Thanks!
I'm sure others will give proper Python solution. But, here, shell is
not a bad tool.
lynx -dump 'http://www.rentalhq.com/store.asp?id=907%2F272%2D4425' | \
awk '/Return to List of Rental Stores/,/To reserve an item/' | \
sed -n -e '3p;5p;10p;11p'
gives me
United Rentals Inc.
3401 Commercial Dr. Anchorage AK, 99501-3024
Phone - 907/272-4425
Fax - 907/272-9683
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