HTML screen scraping and sgrep

Sunday 22 January 2006

I don't need this, but it looks interesting: HTML Screen Scraping and sgrep, a structured grep. From a quick glance, it looks like something XSLT or just XPath would be good for.

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Fazal Majid 11:18 PM on 23 Jan 2006

I tried it for my Amazon wishlist optimizer, but Amazon's HTML makes most XML parsers barf. The solution that worked for me is BeautifulSoup.

Sometimes, XML is a hammer looking for a nail-shaped solution.

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