Screen Scraping for Modern Applications?

[KenAggie]

I just learned about a python library called BeautifulSoup in a thread
responding to my Southwest Airlines script that I wrote and posted on
the Python cookbook web site. I wrote my script using the provided
HTMLParser class. BeautifulSoup could have saved me some time perhaps.
Take a look. Feel free to browse my code for an example of how to use
HTMLParser for a moderately involved project.

BeautifulSoup link:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

My Southwest Boarding pass script link:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/496790

Enjoy.
 - Ken


ljr2600 at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm very new to python and still familiarizing myself with the
> language, sorry if the post seems moronic or simple.
>
> For a side project I'm working on I need to be able to scrape a modern
> computer desktop. Is there any basic material already available to do
> this? I'd rather not need to write my own to interact with hardware.
> 
> Thanks!