[Web-SIG] Extracting web data

[James Mills]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Deb Midya <debmidya at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Python web-sig users,
>
> Thanks in advance and I am new to web-sig.
>
> I am using Python 2.6 on Windows XP.
>
> May I request you to assist me for the following please.
>
> I like to extract web data from the site (http://finance.yahoo.com, for
> example).
>
> The data may include Historical Prices, Key Statistics, News & Info,
> Headlines, etc. for a list of codes (such WOW, .... these are codes for
> company Ids).
>
> I am trying to automate the extraction of data.
>
> Is there any Python module or any assistance please?
>
> Once again, thank you very much for the time you have given.
>

You might want to look into using either
the lxml or BeautifulSoup modules.

cheers
James

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