Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site?

On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 7:49:40 PM UTC-5, ryguy7272 wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to count words in a web site. Here is a sample > of the link I want to scrape data from and count specific words. > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=STRP+Headlines > > I only want to count certain

Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site?

On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 9:51:46 PM UTC-5, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sun, 29 Nov 2015 21:31:49 -0500, Cem Karan writes: > >You might want to look into Beautiful Soup > >(https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4), which is an HTML > >screen-scraping tool. I've never used

Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site?

You might want to look into Beautiful Soup (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4), which is an HTML screen-scraping tool. I've never used it, but I've heard good things about it. Good luck, Cem Karan On Nov 29, 2015, at 7:49 PM, ryguy7272 wrote: > I'm trying to

Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site?

On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 9:32:22 PM UTC-5, Cem Karan wrote: > You might want to look into Beautiful Soup > (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4), which is an HTML > screen-scraping tool. I've never used it, but I've heard good things about > it. > > Good luck, > Cem Karan > >

How can I count word frequency in a web site?

I'm trying to figure out how to count words in a web site. Here is a sample of the link I want to scrape data from and count specific words. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=STRP+Headlines I only want to count certain words, like 'fraud', 'lawsuit', etc. I want to have a way to control for

Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site?

In a message of Sun, 29 Nov 2015 21:31:49 -0500, Cem Karan writes: >You might want to look into Beautiful Soup >(https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4), which is an HTML >screen-scraping tool. I've never used it, but I've heard good things about it. > >Good luck, >Cem Karan

Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site?

> On 30 Nov 2015, at 03:54, ryguy7272 wrote: > > Now, how can I count specific words like 'fraud' and 'lawsuit'? - convert the page to plain text - remove any interpunction - split into words - see what words occur - enumerate all the words and increase a counter for each