On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Wanderer <wande...@dialup4less.com> wrote: > I mostly just lurk and view the post titles to see if something interesting > is being discussed. This code gets me a web page without the spam. You need > to compile it to a pyc file and create a bookmark. Probably not useful for > most people who don't use their browsers the way I do, but here it is. > > # remove authors with mostly caps > > USERAGENTBASE = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:40.0) > Gecko/20100101 ' > BROWSERPATH = 'C:\\"Program Files"\\Waterfox\\waterfox.exe' > FILENAME = 'C:\\PyStuff\\pygroup.htm' > WEBPAGE = > "https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=forum/comp.lang.python"; >
Interesting. Any particular reason to screen-scrape Google Groups rather than start with the netnews protocol? You can get a machine-readable version of the newsgroup much more simply that way, I would have thought. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
