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Very simple example of using Python and Requests to scrape the results from a search interface.
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| # For non-trivial scraping, better to use Scrapy or Beautiful Soup... | |
| # - http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/tutorial.html | |
| # - http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ | |
| import requests | |
| r = requests.get("http://sacbee.com/search_results?aff=1100&q=robot") | |
| r | |
| # <Response [200]> | |
| r.text | |
| # u' \n<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">... | |
| from HTMLParser import HTMLParser | |
| class PrintLinks(HTMLParser): | |
| def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): | |
| print "Tag: ", tag | |
| for attr in attrs: | |
| print " attr: ", attr | |
| parser = PrintLinks() | |
| parser.feed(r.text) | |
| # Tag: html | |
| # Tag: head | |
| # Tag: script | |
| # Tag: script | |
| # Tag: script | |
| # attr: (u'type', u'text/javascript') |
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