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Use python to extract info from html
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reHtml.py
# Not sure why this example doesn't work, but the framework is like this.
# Welcome to point out the bug. Thanks in advance!
import re
content = '<html><p class="name">John</p><p class="profile">http://facebook.com/john</p></html>'
# More info about re in http://docs.python.org/library/re.html
name_result = re.match('class="name">(\w+)<', content).group(1)
profile_result = re.match('class="profile">(.+)<', content).group(1)
print name_result
print profile_result
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bjou commented Sep 17, 2012

Got it the last portion too -- use '.+?' or '.*?' to make it the search not so greedy.

profile_result = re.match('^.*class="profile">(.+?)<', content).group(1)

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grapeot commented Sep 20, 2012

Thanks a lot @bjou!

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