[Wolves] Ryanair web page ripper
Stuart Langridge
sil at kryogenix.org
Mon Sep 4 18:19:08 BST 2006
> I've written a tool to pull down webpages and parse values from forms,
> submit forms back and so on.
>
> You need to look at Pythons urllib2 and ClientForm libraries - Looking
> at the RyanAir site it might not be easy though.
If you're using Python to do this (the thing you're talking about,
programmatically reading some website's HTML and doing something with
it, is called "screen scraping") then you'll also find the
BeautifulSoup library useful.
sil
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