Posted by Ben C on 10/04/06 20:56

On 2006-10-04, Arthur Rhodes <rhodesr@no.spam.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:25:02 -0500, Ben C wrote:
>
>>> Is there an easier way?
>>
>> Python, and Beautiful Soup.
>>
>> http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
>
> Looks good. You don't know of any ready made gui for it,
> do you? I'm thinking it would be nice to have a tree
> pane representing the structure of the document, and when
> you click on a node a text pane shows the corresponding part
> of the document.

I don't know of one, but it wouldn't be hard to do. Someone may have
done one.

But Firefox can do exactly what you're describing, if you install the
"DOM Inspector" extension. You can click on something in the tree
representation in the DOM Inspector window and it flashes red on the
page, or you can point to part of the page, click, and the corresponding
part of the tree representation gets highlighted.

Having found your way around the document with this DOM Inspector, you
can then write the python/BeautifulSoup script to pull out the bits
you're interested in.

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