Chris Messina's Bookmarks Tagged With "screenscraping"

Beautiful Soup: We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
- Rated 5 stars out of 5.
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Beautiful Soup is a Python HTML/XML parser designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping.
- Tags: python, beautifulsoup, css, screenscraping, microformats
- Saved by Chris Messina on January 20, 2008.
SoupSelect - Google Code

http://code.google.com/p/soupselect/
- Rated 5 stars out of 5.
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A single function, select(soup, selector), that can be used to select items from a BeautifulSoup instance using CSS selector syntax. Currently supports type selectors, class selectors, id selectors, attribute selectors and the descendant combinator.
- Tags: python, beautifulsoup, css, screenscraping, microformats
- Saved by Chris Messina on January 20, 2008.