Re: Re: major HTML scubbing needed

get this: http://www.activestate.com/products/activepython/

this should let you run it.

Hale, Paul wrote:
>> From: Tobbe Lundberg [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 6:03 AM
>> To: litestep-HzvBz7w1J3cIFlVeWT/[email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Litestep] Re: major HTML scubbing needed
>>
>> This peice of Python will print four random quotes from bash.org:
>> http://rafb.net/p/CWptde33.html
>> You will need Beautiful Soup for it to work:
>> http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ (you just have 
>> to place the BeautifulSoup.py file in the same directory as 
>> the bash ripping .py file)
>>
>> //Tobbe
>>     
>
> At the risk of sounding really stupid, what do you do with these files?
> They are all .py files...no executables, How do you run or configure
> them?
>
>   
>> On 2/23/07, Sascha Nemecek <[email protected]> wrote:
>>     
>>> Maybe a simple grep under linux will do. Could you post an 
>>>       
>> example of 
>>     
>>> the HTML code?
>>>
>>>
>>> Sascha
>>>
>>> Brian Wolven wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Paul wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Brian Wolven wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Paul wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> OK, all this talk of Bash got me all hot and bothered. I am 
>>>>>>> downloading the entire website now. I will weed out 
>>>>>>>               
>> all the tiny 
>>     
>>>>>>> nothing pages and only keep the pages that have quotes 
>>>>>>>               
>> on them. 
>>     
>>>>>>> Once that is done, we need to find a way to remove all the 
>>>>>>> extraneous HTML junk.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Brian, this sounds right up your alley. I am assuming that all 
>>>>>>> the quote pages formatting will be identical, 
>>>>>>>               
>> otherwise it will 
>>     
>>>>>>> be for naught. If they are, could a VBS script be written to 
>>>>>>> parse out plain text that we could then convert into one line 
>>>>>>> quotes line our quotes file?
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> You mean you can't just do it with wazup.dll? ;)
>>>>>>             
>>>>> I didn't think so. Otherwise it would have been done by 
>>>>>           
>> now right?
>>     
>>>> I bet rabidcow can do it in DOS.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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