I am trying to strip data from thousands of identical Excel 2007/2010 files. I would prefer to do this using scraping techniques. Is it possible to scrape an Excel file since, as far as I know, the file is basically some sort of XML format. So, is it possible to convert an Excel file to XML or some other markup format? ...
Im trying to parse a list of video game titles from a shopping site. however as the item list is all stored inside a tag . This section of the documentation supposedly explains how to parse only part of the document but i cant work it out. my code: from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import urllib import re url = "Some Shopping ...
Using the HTML Agility Pack is great for getting descendants and whole tables etc... but how can you use it in the below situation ...Html Code above... <dl> <dt>Location:</dt> <dd>City, London</dd> <dt style="padding-bottom:10px;">Distance:</dt> <dd style="padding-bottom:10px;">0 miles</dd> <dt>Date Issued:</dt> <dd>26/10/2010</dd> <d...