Re: Extracting web data
James Mills <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Deb Midya <debmidya-/[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Python web-sig users, > > Thanks in advance and I am new to web-sig. > > I am using Python 2.6 on Windows XP. > > May I request you to assist me for the following please. > > I like to extract web data from the site (http://finance.yahoo.com, for > example). > > The data may include Historical Prices, Key Statistics, News & Info, > Headlines, etc. for a list of codes (such WOW, .... these are codes for > company Ids). > > I am trying to automate the extraction of data. > > Is there any Python module or any assistance please? > > Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given. > You might want to look into using either the lxml or BeautifulSoup modules. cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list [email protected] Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/gcpw-web-sig%40m.gmane.org