help!! *extra* tricky web page to extract data from...

[Diez B. Roggisch]

seberino at spawar.navy.mil schrieb:
> How extract the visible numerical data from this Microsoft financial
> web site?
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/yw2w4h
> 
> If you simply download the HTML file you'll see the data is *not*
> embedded in it but loaded from some other file.
> 
> Surely if I can see the data in my browser I can grab it somehow right
> in a Python script?
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated.

It's an AJAX-site. You have to carefully analyze it and see what 
actually happens in the javascript, then use that. Maybe something like 
the http header plugin for firefox helps you there.

Diez