RE: internet searching program

2008-08-12 Thread Support Desk
-longer.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:09 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: internet searching program On 8月12日, 下午1时44分, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 12, 12:03 am, "Support Desk"

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-12 Thread maoxw
On 8月12日, 下午1时44分, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 12, 12:03 am, "Support Desk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Google does'nt allow use of their API's anymore, I belive Yahoo has one > > Are you sure? > > "Google Custom Search enables you to search over a website or a > collection of w

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-11 Thread alex23
On Aug 12, 12:03 am, "Support Desk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Google does'nt allow use of their API's anymore, I belive Yahoo has one Are you sure? "Google Custom Search enables you to search over a website or a collection of websites. You can harness the power of Google to create a search eng

RE: internet searching program

2008-08-11 Thread Support Desk
Steven D'Aprano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 11:22 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: internet searching program On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:59:02 -0700, KillSwitch wrote: > Is it possible to make a program to search a site on the internet, then > get ce

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-10 Thread BAnderton
I was doing something very similar on my windows XP machine a year ago (with python 2.4) and used Mayukh Bose's Internet Explorer controller (see http://www.mayukhbose.com/python/IEC/index.php for details/ download). It worked very nicely for my needs and was rather intuitive (generally much easie

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-10 Thread KillSwitch
Thanks a lot for all of everyones help, I am really looking forward to learning the ins and ous of python or my first programming language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-09 Thread greg
Michael Tobis wrote: I think you are talking about "screen scraping". Your program can get the html for the page, and search for an appropriate pattern. However, it wouldn't be "really fast", because you still have to fetch all the pages that might contain data you're looking for. Google sear

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-09 Thread alex23
On Aug 9, 12:59 pm, KillSwitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to make a program to search a site on the internet, > then get certain information from the web pages that match and display > them? Like, you would put in keywords to be searched for on > youtube.com, then it would search y

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-09 Thread Michael Tobis
I think you are talking about "screen scraping". Your program can get the html for the page, and search for an appropriate pattern. Look at the source for a YouTube view page and you will see a string var embedUrl = 'http:// You can write code to search for that in the html text.

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-09 Thread KillSwitch
No, I mean to search the internet really fast and display only REALLY SPECIFIC information about certain web pages. Like, stuff Google wouldn't have. For instance, in the youtube example, it would name the names of the videos, the url's of them, and the EMBED information without you having to view

Re: internet searching program

2008-08-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:59:02 -0700, KillSwitch wrote: > Is it possible to make a program to search a site on the internet, then > get certain information from the web pages that match and display them? > Like, you would put in keywords to be searched for on youtube.com, then > it would search yout