In article <[email protected]>,
Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
> In contrast, that is not the case with nearly all web forums. By
> deliberate design, or mere ignorance and neglect, they mix up the message
> you care about ("Hi Bob...") and the stuff you need to get that message
> (the HTML and Javascript code) in one big ball of mud, and don't have
> APIs for getting messages.
BTW, I was going to bring up vBulletin as an example of a typical web
forum which suffers from the "big ball of mud" syndrome. Then I
discovered that it does indeed have a reasonable looking API
(http://www.vbulletin.com/vbcms/content.php/367-API-Overview).
Beautiful Soup is an awesome tool. Even more awesome is when you don't
have to use it :-)
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