In article <52a290ed$0$30003$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> In contrast, that is not the case with nearly all web forums. By > deliberate design, or mere ignorance and neglect, they mix up the message > you care about ("Hi Bob...") and the stuff you need to get that message > (the HTML and Javascript code) in one big ball of mud, and don't have > APIs for getting messages. BTW, I was going to bring up vBulletin as an example of a typical web forum which suffers from the "big ball of mud" syndrome. Then I discovered that it does indeed have a reasonable looking API (http://www.vbulletin.com/vbcms/content.php/367-API-Overview). Beautiful Soup is an awesome tool. Even more awesome is when you don't have to use it :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list