Thanks John! Lots of great leads in your post that I am busy looking at. I did try one program, MaxQ, that records web surfing. It seems to work great. I have looked at all of your leads and plan to give them all a try. BTW, I am not sure how I came accross Mechanoid before Mechanize, but I did and started to study that. Somehow I had the notion that Mechanize was a Pearl script. Thanks again, Seymour
John J. Lee wrote: > "Seymour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am trying to find a way to sign onto my Wall Street Journal account > > (http://online.wsj.com/public/us) and automatically download various > > financial pages on stocks and mutual funds that I am interested in > > tracking. I have a subscription to this site and am trying to figure > > out how to use python, which I have been trying to learn for the past > > year, to automatically login and capture a few different pages. > [...] > > Just to add: It's quite possible that site has an "no scraping" > condition in their terms of use. It seems standard legal boilerplate > on commercial sites these days. Not a good thing on the whole, I tend > to think, but you should be aware of it. > > > John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
