On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 11:31:13 AM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Wanderer 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
I don't know what a netnews protocol is. I use Google Groups to look at usenet. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
