Reproducing a web page and add own content to it.
Hi - I'm working on a Django powered site where one of the required functionalities is the possibility of displaying the content of external pages, with an extra banner at the top where specific information is displayed. In other words, I'm looking for a way to reproduce an existing web page and add some HTML code to it. (I can't think of an example right now, but the idea is similar to sites that let you see an external page and have some site-specific text above it (often stating that the content below is not part of the site the user comes from)). To test this, I've been downloading an external page, adding some text to it and re-opening it in a browser (with the help of built-in modules such as urllib2 etc). This works of course, but the external page's links such as img src=hello.png, or a href=help.html are evidently no longer correct. Apart from parsing the whole file and trying to inject the external site's domain in links such as the above (with the added inconvenience of having to store the external page locally), is there an easier way of accomplishing what I want? Thanks, Mathieu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reproducing a web page and add own content to it.
LaundroMat wrote: Hi - I'm working on a Django powered site where one of the required functionalities is the possibility of displaying the content of external pages, with an extra banner at the top where specific information is displayed. In other words, I'm looking for a way to reproduce an existing web page and add some HTML code to it. (I can't think of an example right now, but the idea is similar to sites that let you see an external page and have some site-specific text above it (often stating that the content below is not part of the site the user comes from)). To test this, I've been downloading an external page, adding some text to it and re-opening it in a browser (with the help of built-in modules such as urllib2 etc). This works of course, but the external page's links such as img src=hello.png, or a href=help.html are evidently no longer correct. Apart from parsing the whole file and trying to inject the external site's domain in links such as the above (with the added inconvenience of having to store the external page locally), is there an easier way of accomplishing what I want? Using a frame? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reproducing a web page and add own content to it.
On Apr 8, 2:04 pm, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LaundroMat wrote: Hi - I'm working on a Django powered site where one of the required functionalities is the possibility of displaying the content of external pages, with an extra banner at the top where specific information is displayed. In other words, I'm looking for a way to reproduce an existing web page and add some HTML code to it. (I can't think of an example right now, but the idea is similar to sites that let you see an external page and have some site-specific text above it (often stating that the content below is not part of the site the user comes from)). To test this, I've been downloading an external page, adding some text to it and re-opening it in a browser (with the help of built-in modules such as urllib2 etc). This works of course, but the external page's links such as img src=hello.png, or a href=help.html are evidently no longer correct. Apart from parsing the whole file and trying to inject the external site's domain in links such as the above (with the added inconvenience of having to store the external page locally), is there an easier way of accomplishing what I want? Using a frame? Diez Ack. I was too focused on importing the external web page and redisplaying the information (I've just been reading up on BeautifulSoup) instead of looking for an HTML based approach. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reproducing a web page and add own content to it.
LaundroMat wrote: On Apr 8, 2:04 pm, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LaundroMat wrote: Hi - I'm working on a Django powered site where one of the required functionalities is the possibility of displaying the content of external pages, with an extra banner at the top where specific information is displayed. In other words, I'm looking for a way to reproduce an existing web page and add some HTML code to it. (I can't think of an example right now, but the idea is similar to sites that let you see an external page and have some site-specific text above it (often stating that the content below is not part of the site the user comes from)). To test this, I've been downloading an external page, adding some text to it and re-opening it in a browser (with the help of built-in modules such as urllib2 etc). This works of course, but the external page's links such as img src=hello.png, or a href=help.html are evidently no longer correct. Apart from parsing the whole file and trying to inject the external site's domain in links such as the above (with the added inconvenience of having to store the external page locally), is there an easier way of accomplishing what I want? Using a frame? Diez Ack. I was too focused on importing the external web page and redisplaying the information (I've just been reading up on BeautifulSoup) instead of looking for an HTML based approach. Thanks! You could also look at adding a base tag to your generated page's head section. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Reproducing a web page and add own content to it.
On Apr 8, 4:11 pm, Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LaundroMat wrote: On Apr 8, 2:04 pm, Diez B. Roggisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LaundroMat wrote: Hi - I'm working on a Django powered site where one of the required functionalities is the possibility of displaying the content of external pages, with an extra banner at the top where specific information is displayed. In other words, I'm looking for a way to reproduce an existing web page and add some HTML code to it. (I can't think of an example right now, but the idea is similar to sites that let you see an external page and have some site-specific text above it (often stating that the content below is not part of the site the user comes from)). To test this, I've been downloading an external page, adding some text to it and re-opening it in a browser (with the help of built-in modules such as urllib2 etc). This works of course, but the external page's links such as img src=hello.png, or a href=help.html are evidently no longer correct. Apart from parsing the whole file and trying to inject the external site's domain in links such as the above (with the added inconvenience of having to store the external page locally), is there an easier way of accomplishing what I want? Using a frame? Diez Ack. I was too focused on importing the external web page and redisplaying the information (I've just been reading up on BeautifulSoup) instead of looking for an HTML based approach. Thanks! You could also look at adding a base tag to your generated page's head section. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ True, but I suppose that users would no longer see the top banner added by me when they click on one of the links on the external site's page. I'm a bit hesitant about using frames however, but reading up on them makes me think the application I have in mind for them might be the generally accepted exception to the rule that frames are bad :) Anyway. Thanks for the help! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
