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* [http://codespeak.net/lxml/ lxml] | * [http://codespeak.net/lxml/ lxml] which can apparently deal with "mal-formed" HTML and quickly convert them to xml trees | ||
* [http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ html5lib] | * [http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ html5lib] | ||
Revision as of 14:01, 11 April 2009
Scraping (also Screen Scraping) is the process of extracting data out of something.
In the course, we have used the library BeautifulSoup to manipulate HTML pages in Python.
Other interesting libraries to consider: