On 2009-07-16, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Helmut > Jarausch<jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I haven't found anything with Google's group search, so let me >> ask it (again?). >> >> How can I search this newsgroup from within a Python script. >> (Perhaps by searching Google Groups or Gmane by some Python code.) > > 1. Generate URL of the form: > http://search.gmane.org/?query=foo&group=gmane.comp.python.general > where "foo" is the search terms, with proper URL escaping applied. > 2. Fetch URL using urllib - http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html > 3. Parse resulting HTML page (e.g. using BeautifulSoup) > 4. Extract desired information from search results using the parse tree. > 5. ??? > 6. Profit!
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