Re: Fetch info from website and write to txt file.

Pitmairen wrote:
> I want to make a program that get info from a website and prints it out
> in a txt file.
>
> I made this:
>
> import urllib
> f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/")
> s = f.read()
> k = open("test.txt","w")
> k.write(s)
> k.close()
> f.close()
>
> That saves all the html code into the test.txt file. But if i for
> example only want the genre, plot outline and Cast overview to be
> written to the txt file. How can i do that?
>
>
> And another problem i have:
>
> If the txt file i want the information to be saved in already have some
> text saved in it. How can i save the info from the website between the
> text that was there before?
>
> for example:
>
> blablablablablablablabla
> blablablablablablablabla
> blablablablablablablabla
> (inset info from website here)
> blablablablablablablabla
> blablablablablablablabla
> blablablablablablablabla
>

to get a text file that looks like your web page, stripped of markup,
look at "lynx -dump" or "w3m -dump" ( i think links2 does the same).
else:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/f899b120bd9bf821/1a9a5fe2bc92e00f?q=html&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.python%2Fsearch%3Fgroup%3Dcomp.lang.python%26q%3Dhtml%26qt_g%3D1%26searchnow%3DSearch+this+group%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/7b411613ef23f62d/adb74a1bb1355632?q=html+group:comp.lang.python&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3Dhtml+group:comp.lang.python%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26num%3D10%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D1%26as_minm%3D10%26as_miny%3D2004%26as_maxd%3D16%26as_maxm%3D2%26as_maxy%3D2005%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d
Received on Sun Apr 30 10:59:58 2006