Zhang Le wrote:
That's a very large topic, and not one that I could claim to be expert on, so let's hope that others will pitch in with their favorite techniques. Otherwise it's down to providing individual parsers for each service you want to scan, and maintaining the parsers as each group of designers modifies their pages.Thanks for the hint. The xml-rpc service is great, but I want some general techniques to parse news information in the usual html pages.
Currently I'm looking at a script-based approach found at: http://www.namo.com/products/handstory/manual/hsceditor/ User can write some simple template to extract certain fields from a web page. Unfortunately, it is not open source, so I can not look inside the blackbox.:-(
Zhang Le
You might want to look at BeutifulSoup, which is a module for extracting stuff from (possibly) irregularly-formed HTML.
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