On Aug 5, 4:30 pm, Massi <massi_...@msn.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm using the urllib2 library to get the html source code > of web pages. In general it works great, but I'm having to do with a > financial web site which does not provide the souce code I expect. As > a matter of fact if you try: > > import urllib2 > res = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.marketwatch.com/story/mondays- > biggest-gaining-and-declining-stocks-2009-07-27") > page = res.read() > print page > > you will see that the printed code is very different from the one > given, for example, by mozilla. Since I have really little knowledge > in html I can't even understand if this is a python or html problem. > Can anyone give me some help? > Thanks in advance.
Check if setting your user agent to Mozilla results in a different page: http://diveintopython.org/http_web_services/user_agent.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list