[Nottingham] Web page scraping

[Martin]

Martin Garton wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 15:14 +0100, Martin wrote:
>> "Web page scraping":
>>
>> Anyone recommend any software for extracting info/tables from html and
>> web pages?
> 
> wget, awk, sed, grep.

Yes, and all glued together with scripting...


This is the sort of thing that there just must be something along the
lines of you download a page, highlight what you want, and then the item
fields just magically pop out as pretty csv...

Or am I dreaming?

Cheers,
Martin

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