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HTML Scraping??

anyone know some good reliable html scraping (with python) tutorials.
i have looked around and found a few.
one uses urllib2 and beautifull soap modules for scraping and parsing
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writi..._scraping.html

and the other uyses mechanize, clientcookie ,clientform.
http://sig.levillage.org/?p=588

which one should i go with.
i am looking for and html scraping solution
that works with the registrar of a college and return stuff like course
dtails.

Jul 30 '05 #1
1 1890
There are several HTML scraping examples that ship with pyparsing,
including a URL extractor, temperature display, and NTP server
extractor (this last is probably closest to your question).

Download pyparsing at http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net.

-- Paul

Jul 31 '05 #2

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