On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 8:57 AM, BobAalsma <overhaalsgang_24_...@me.com> wrote: > I'd like to write a programme that will be offered as a web service (Django), > in which the user will point to a specific URL and the programme will be used > to read the text of that URL. > > This text can be behind a username/password, but for several reasons, I don't > want to know those. > > So I would like to set up a situation where the user logs in (if/when > appropriate), points out the URL to my programme and my programme would then > be able to read that particular text. > > I'm aware this may sound fishy. It should not be: I want the user to be fully > aware and in control of this process. > > Any thoughts on how to approach this?
There are several python modules to get web pages. urllib, urllib2 and another called requests. (http://kennethreitz.com/requests-python-http-module.html) Check those out > > Best regards, > Bob > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Joel Goldstick -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
