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 More options Mar 10 2009, 11:36 pm
From: Joe <qbpro...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:36:57 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Mar 10 2009 11:36 pm
Subject: Dumping to PlainText
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I'm trying to just dump plaintext from websites.  I was originally
trying to use this function: http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/api/nltk.util-module.html#cl...
but it was crashing.

After some googling, I found this:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Regular_Express...

with this code:
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as BSoup

page = urllib2.urlopen('http://somedomain/index.html').read()
soup = BSoup(page, convertEntities=BSoup.HTML_ENTITIES)

# only the text nodes between body tags.
print ''.join(soup.body(text=True))

Since BeautifulSoup seems to pride itself in being able to handle any
HTML, I wasn't expecting an error on the same url.  Here is the url
that I'm trying to extract text from: http://www.amazon.com/Pig-Big-Douglas-Florian/dp/0688171265

Any help would be great,
Joe


 
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