You might want to look into Beautiful Soup (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4), which is an HTML screen-scraping tool. I've never used it, but I've heard good things about it.
Good luck, Cem Karan On Nov 29, 2015, at 7:49 PM, ryguy7272 <ryanshu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to count words in a web site. Here is a sample > of the link I want to scrape data from and count specific words. > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=STRP+Headlines > > I only want to count certain words, like 'fraud', 'lawsuit', etc. I want to > have a way to control for specific words. I have a couple Python scripts > that do this for a text file, but not for a web site. I can post that, if > that's helpful. > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
