Group:
Thank you for all the informative replies, they have helped me figure
things out. Next up is learning beautiful soup.
Thank you for the code example, but I am trying to learn how to
'screen scrape', because Yahoo does make historical stock data
available using the CSV format, but they do
cjl wrote:
Hi.
I am trying to screen scrape some stock data from yahoo, so I am
trying to use urllib2 to retrieve the html and beautiful soup for the
parsing.
Maybe (most likely) I am doing something wrong, but when I use
urllib2.urlopen to fetch a page, and when I view 'page source' of
On Mar 20, 1:56 am, Tina I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
cjl wrote:
Hi.
I am trying to screen scrape some stock data from yahoo, so I am
trying to use urllib2 to retrieve the html and beautiful soup for the
parsing.
Maybe (most likely) I am doing something wrong, but when I use
Here's a useful online tool that might help you see what's happening:
http://www.sitetruth.com/experimental/viewer.html
We use this to help webmasters see what our web crawler is seeing.
This reads a page, using Python and FancyURLOpener, with a
USER-AGENT string of
On Mar 20, 8:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 20, 1:56 am, Tina I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to screen scrape some stock data from yahoo, so I am
trying to use urllib2 to retrieve the html and beautiful soup for the
parsing.
You can do this fairly easily. I found a
Hi.
I am trying to screen scrape some stock data from yahoo, so I am
trying to use urllib2 to retrieve the html and beautiful soup for the
parsing.
Maybe (most likely) I am doing something wrong, but when I use
urllib2.urlopen to fetch a page, and when I view 'page source' of the
exact same URL
On Mar 19, 10:30 pm, cjl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi.
I am trying to screen scrape some stock data from yahoo, so I am
trying to use urllib2 to retrieve the html and beautiful soup for the
parsing.
Maybe (most likely) I am doing something wrong, but when I use
urllib2.urlopen to fetch a
cjl wrote:
Hi.
I am trying to screen scrape some stock data from yahoo, so I am
trying to use urllib2 to retrieve the html and beautiful soup for the
parsing.
Maybe (most likely) I am doing something wrong, but when I use
urllib2.urlopen to fetch a page, and when I view 'page source' of