web crawling.

Alex Martelli aleax at mail.comcast.net
Thu Jan 19 02:07:28 EST 2006


S Borg <spwpreston at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hello,
> 
>  I have been writing very simple Python programs that parse HTML and
> such, mainly just to get
> a better feel for the language. Here is my question: If I parsed an
> HTML page into all of the image
> files listed on that page, how could I request all of those images and
> download them into some specified folder? I am sure this is quite easy,
> but I am stuck.

There's a good crawler in the Demo directory of the Python source
distribution, so download and unpack said sources and look there.


Alex



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