On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 9:32:22 PM UTC-5, Cem Karan wrote:
> You might want to look into Beautiful Soup
> (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4), which is an HTML
> screen-scraping tool. I've never used it, but I've heard good things about
> it.
>
> Good luck,
> Cem Karan
>
> On Nov 29, 2015, at 7:49 PM, ryguy7272 wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to figure out how to count words in a web site. Here is a
> > sample of the link I want to scrape data from and count specific words.
> > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=STRP+Headlines
> >
> > I only want to count certain words, like 'fraud', 'lawsuit', etc. I want
> > to have a way to control for specific words. I have a couple Python
> > scripts that do this for a text file, but not for a web site. I can post
> > that, if that's helpful.
> >
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Ok, this small script will grab everything from the link.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
r = requests.get("http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=STRP+Headlines";)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content)
htmltext = soup.prettify()
print htmltext
Now, how can I count specific words like 'fraud' and 'lawsuit'?
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