Python Screen Scraper

[James Stroud]

James Stroud wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know of an example, however modest, of a screenscraper 
> authored in python? I am using Firefox.
> 
> Basically, I am answering problems via my browser and being scored for 
> each problem. I have a tendency to go past my peak for training 
> efficiency, so I would like to scrape the result page for each problem I 
> answer, compile statistics, and have a program alert me when I should 
> stop (based on score and accuracy--assuming training value is related to 
> changes in these metrics).
> 
> I have no idea how to go about writing such a beast and I am hoping that 
> I could get some pointers or an example that could get me going in the 
> right direction.
> 
> Parsing, etc, is not a problem, but I'm not exactly sure how I might 
> interface python with Firefox, forwarding scraped pages to my browser 
> (or forwarding from the browser to the scraper).
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
> 
> James

Thanks to everyone for your suggestions.

James