Data-mining - python

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 21:00:34 UTC 2008


On 2/11/08, Richard Seguin <richard.seguin at transubuntu.ca> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if data-mining is the right term for it but I am looking
> for a way to extract data off a website (http and https) on a consistent
> basis and I was wondering if python would be a good language to create
> my scripts...  I justed figured I would ask here since most of you
> probably program.



The term is screenscaping. There should be some libraries/programs out there
to parse html for specific things.

Corey
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