python html extract tags

Question

How would it be possible to do the following:

1. Scan through an html page (preferably through a whole domain (www.python.org) and extract all

h1 h2 ...hn Tags

and write all Headings to a file. In the correct order:

Start with h1 Than h2

until we reach the next h1

Answer 1

Use BeautifulSoup or PyQuery.

Answer 2

Given the requirement to scan a whole website, you might want to look into pycurl to grab the files to scrape. Be careful not to hit the site with the equivalent of a DoS attack though.