How can I count word frequency in a web site?

ryguy7272 ryanshuell at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 10:04:11 EST 2015


On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 7:49:40 PM UTC-5, ryguy7272 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.


This works great!  Thanks for sharing!!



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