RE: Re: major HTML scubbing needed

> From: Gregory J. Weaver [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 9:27 AM
> To: litestep-HzvBz7w1J3cIFlVeWT/[email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Litestep] Re: major HTML scubbing needed
> 
> get this: http://www.activestate.com/products/activepython/
> 
> this should let you run it.

Oh, never mind. I cannot install that here at work. Plus, I think we are
getting outside my level of experience. 

> 
> 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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