"mtuller" typed:
> I have also tried Beautiful Soup, but had trouble understanding the
> documentation
As Gabriel has suggested, spend a little more time going through the
documentation of BeautifulSoup. It is pretty easy to grasp.
I'll give you an example: I want to extract the text between the
following span tags in a large HTML source file.
<span class="title">Linux Kernel Bluetooth CAPI Packet Remote Buffer Overflow
Vulnerability</span>
>>> import re
>>> from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
>>> from urllib2 import urlopen
>>> soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen('http://www.someurl.tld/'))
>>> title = soup.find(name='span', attrs={'class':'title'},
>>> text=re.compile(r'^Linux \w+'))
>>> title
u'Linux Kernel Bluetooth CAPI Packet Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability'
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