Popular Python recipes tagged "meta:requires=beautifulsoup"

Batch download all the pinned pictures in your Pinterest board to a local folder (Python)

2016-02-18T17:26:50-08:00

Python recipe 580611 by Alfred Wang (batch, download, picture, pinterest).

Batch download all the pinned pictures in your Pinterest board to a local folder. Be noted: you have to keep your internet browser signed in your Pinterest account first.

Convert HTML text to PDF with Beautiful Soup and xtopdf (Python)

2015-01-28T22:20:53-08:00

Python recipe 579014 by Vasudev Ram (file, format, pdf, pdfwriter, python, reportgeneration, reporting, reportlab, xtopdf).

This recipe shows how to convert the text in an HTML document to PDF. It uses the Beautiful Soup and xtopdf Python libraries. Beautiful Soup is a library for HTML parsing and content extraction. xtopdf is a library for PDF creation from other formats, including text and many others.

Python script to find linux distros details from distrowatch (Python)

2015-07-29T18:24:23-07:00

Python recipe 579038 by Emil george james (beautifulsoup, internet, module, python, url, web).

this script is a simlpe python script to find linux distros details from distrowatch using beautifulsoup,urllib2 modules.The script finds distros distribution details from distrowatch.com when the distribution name is called as argument.

Music Downloader with Wx GUI! (Python)

2013-11-05T02:52:29-08:00

Python recipe 578681 by Christian Careaga (beautifulsoup, downloader, gui, music, python, urllib, urllib2, wxpyton).

Just type in a song and the artist and the program will get the YouTube video, convert it to an mp3 then download it! It has a high quality function and a medium quality function and also the user can choose the directory and name they want the file to be saved to!

It is the first time I've used threads and my second time with WxPython! I used BeautifulSoup for the scraping and I'm pretty familiar with that.just thought id share it with you guys and see if you have any feedback or suggestions!

also you may get an error saying self.convhtml doesn't exist just wait then retry

Here is a link to an screenshot:

http://adf.ly/XJaoU

if you want you can checkout the Github page:

http://adf.ly/XGL6P

also you will need to make a folder called Files and put a file called dir.txt and in the file write /Files. this is where the music will be downloaded to!

I just made the .exe so you can just use that and its easier! Here: http://adf.ly/XRjRH

Send Messages to millions of facebook Users (Python)

2013-07-08T04:33:58-07:00

Python recipe 578594 by AJay Kumar (facebook).

This script will allow you to send Messages to people who have a username on facebook from an email id you specify in the script.Although message will not be sent to their inbox,if you're not a friend but it will be sent to other category.

handling embedded email images in python (Python)

2012-03-02T12:43:51-08:00

Python recipe 578058 by Gregory Nicholas (appengine, email, embedded_image, python).

this code finds all embedded images in the email and replaces them with an appropriate img tag.

Show all the telecommuting jobs from the Python Job Board (Python)

2011-12-09T07:38:28-08:00

Python recipe 577979 by Victor Yang (html, network, screenscrape).

It is running as a cronjob on a VPS(Virutal Private Server). The output html can be served by any web server.

handling embedded email images in python (Python)

2011-10-26T15:31:45-07:00

Python recipe 577923 by Simeon Shpiz (appengine, email, embedded_image, python). Revision 2.

this code finds all embedded images in the email and replaces them with an appropriate img tag.

Twitter incremental backup in YAML format - by HTML get and parse (Python)

2011-09-24T18:09:00-07:00

Python recipe 577877 by Robert Lujo (backup, twitter, yaml).

Yet another script for backing up Twitter posts (statuses). More information can be found here.

The script is based on http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576594/, http://movingtofreedom.org/2009/03/18/python-script-for-backing-up-twitter-statuses/.

Wiki Recent Changes Checker (Python)

2010-12-28T07:27:25-08:00

Python recipe 577522 by Ry (beautifulsoup, python, ubuntu, wiki).

Basic script that will check and see if there have been any recent changes to a Wikimedia. Used for low use Wikimedia sites to keep an eye on them. I run this whenever my box starts and it will open the browser along with a few other windows that open.

Website Text Search (Python)

2010-09-11T17:32:01-07:00

Python recipe 577388 by FB36 (html, http, url, urllib2, web). Revision 2.

Searches a website recursively for the given text string and prints all URLs containing it.

Image Downloader (Python)

2014-02-24T03:49:51-08:00

Python recipe 577385 by FB36 (html, http, url, urllib2, web). Revision 4.

Finds and downloads all images from any given URL.

Important note:

If your download location path has spaces then put quotes around it!

Retrieve Dell Warranty Information for all machines in AD Domain (Python)

2010-02-18T15:51:28-08:00

Python recipe 577056 by Kenneth Keiter (active_directory_scripts, ad, dell, domain, network, warranty, windows).

This snippet retrieves warranty information for all Dell machines in a domain and outputs a CSV of the results.

Should be run on a machine joined to an active directory or NT4 domain. May need to be updated to parse Dell's website if they update it (since they have no service tag API).

bier-soup.py, a small example of BeautifulSoup (Python)

2009-07-24T05:59:43-07:00

Python recipe 576841 by denis (beautifulsoup, bier). Revision 3.

bier-soup.py reads html tables like those in http://www.bier1.de and writes plain text files, as a small example of BeautifulSoup

Simple Web Crawler (Python)

2011-01-31T21:57:58-08:00

Python recipe 576551 by James Mills (crawler, network, parsing, web). Revision 2.

NOTE: This recipe has been updated with suggested improvements since the last revision.

This is a simple web crawler I wrote to test websites and links. It will traverse all links found to any given depth.

See --help for usage.

I'm posting this recipe as this kind of problem has been asked on the Python Mailing List a number of times... I thought I'd share my simple little implementation based on the standard library and BeautifulSoup.

--JamesMills

Backup/download your tweets or anyone's tweets. (Python)

2008-12-25T10:08:07-08:00

Python recipe 576594 by Zach Seifts (tweets, twitter). Revision 3.

A quick script that lets you download all of your tweets and write them to a text file.

Search Google scholar (Python)

2007-07-13T15:20:12-07:00

Python recipe 523047 by Yusdi Santoso .

This code allows you to search Google scholar from Python code. The result is returned in a nice dictionary format with each field addressed by its key.