How to search this newsgroup by a python script.

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Helmut
Jarausch<jarausch at igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I haven't found anything with Google's group search, so let me
> ask it (again?).
>
> How can I search this newsgroup from within a Python script.
> (Perhaps by searching Google Groups or Gmane by some Python code.)

1. Generate URL of the form:
http://search.gmane.org/?query=foo&group=gmane.comp.python.general
where "foo" is the search terms, with proper URL escaping applied.
2. Fetch URL using urllib - http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html
3. Parse resulting HTML page (e.g. using BeautifulSoup)
4. Extract desired information from search results using the parse tree.
5. ???
6. Profit!

Cheers,
Chris
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