Any Python Programmers?

[Jludo]

I'm working on a program and cannot for the life of me figure out how to web scrape with Beautiful soup. Anyone have experience?

 

[sljccj]

No clue what you are talking about. However youtube has been extremely helpful to me.

 

[hoosierdoc]

I ran this by my anaconda but he don't want none

 

[miguel]

You trying to scrape an excerpt from a page or the whole page?

Have you tried the raw_input() function?

 

[Jludo]

You trying to scrape an excerpt from a page or the whole page?

Have you tried the raw_input() function?

There are ordered lists on the page I want to pull the title text out of, I've got the page parsed I just can't figure out to iterate and export the 'title' names to a list.

<div class="mobile-columns" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2;">
<h3>
<span class="mw-headline" id="Alabama">
Alabama
</span>
</h3>
<ol>
<li>
<a href="/Bradley_Byrne" title="Bradley Byrne">
Bradley Byrne
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/Gary_Palmer" title="Gary Palmer">
Gary Palmer
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="/Martha_Roby" title="Martha Roby">
Martha Roby
</a>
</li>
<li>

 

[JollyMon]

you should be able to get a count of the href in a specific span... I think you can use find_all....

so like

for a in find_all('a', href=true):
//find the title attribute and do what you want.

 

[TB1999]

I ran this by my anaconda but he don't want none

/buns