Data-mining - python

[Dave Nelson]

On 2/11/08, Richard Seguin <richard.seguin at transubuntu.ca> wrote:

> I'm not sure if data-mining is the right term for it but I am 
looking
> for a way to extract data off a website (http and https) on a 
consistent
> basis and I was wondering if python would be a good language to 
create
> my scripts...  I justed figured I would ask here since most of you
> probably program.

I use Python and the best tool I've found for screen-scraping is 
Beautiful Soup. It's well documented too.

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Good luck,
Dave