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Posted by Ben C on 10/03/06 18:25
On 2006-10-03, Arthur Rhodes <rhodesr@no.spam.com> wrote:
> I'm building a web store and I have to create a large number of
> product descriptions. The distributors do not provide spec sheets
> or marketing materials to me in html format. Instead, they advise
> me to simply copy the descriptions from their web sites.
>
> The problem is that the descriptions I need to copy are embedded
> in complex pages, with nested tables, etc. Simply copying the
> page source doesn't seem to be that useful. I end up having to
> cut out lots of table code, etc., and usually make mistakes that
> are time consuming to figure out and fix.
>
> The other alternative is to copy the text and then recreating the html
> formatting from scratch.
>
> Is there an easier way?
Python, and Beautiful Soup.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
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