How can I count word frequency in a web site?

[Cem Karan]

You might want to look into Beautiful Soup (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4), which is an HTML screen-scraping tool.  I've never used it, but I've heard good things about it.

Good luck,
Cem Karan

On Nov 29, 2015, at 7:49 PM, ryguy7272 <ryanshuell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to count words in a web site.  Here is a sample of the link I want to scrape data from and count specific words.
> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=STRP+Headlines
> 
> I only want to count certain words, like 'fraud', 'lawsuit', etc.  I want to have a way to control for specific words.  I have a couple Python scripts that do this for a text file, but not for a web site.  I can post that, if that's helpful.
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