http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/beautifulsoup-mechanize/2015-07-29T18:24:23-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2015-07-29T18:24:23-07:00Emil george jameshttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4191910/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/579038-python-script-to-find-linux-distros-details-from-d/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 579038 by <a href="/recipes/users/4191910/">Emil george james</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/beautifulsoup/">beautifulsoup</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/internet/">internet</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/module/">module</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/url/">url</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/web/">web</a>). </p> <p>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 <a href="http://distrowatch.com" rel="nofollow">distrowatch.com</a> when the distribution name is called as argument.</p>

2013-11-05T02:52:29-08:00Christian Careagahttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4186639/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578681-music-downloader-with-wx-gui/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578681 by <a href="/recipes/users/4186639/">Christian Careaga</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/beautifulsoup/">beautifulsoup</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/downloader/">downloader</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/gui/">gui</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/music/">music</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/urllib/">urllib</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/urllib2/">urllib2</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/wxpyton/">wxpyton</a>). </p> <p>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!</p> <p>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!</p> <p>also you may get an error saying self.convhtml doesn't exist just wait then retry</p> <p>Here is a link to an screenshot:</p> <p><a href="http://adf.ly/XJaoU" rel="nofollow">http://adf.ly/XJaoU</a></p> <p>if you want you can checkout the Github page:</p> <p><a href="http://adf.ly/XGL6P" rel="nofollow">http://adf.ly/XGL6P</a></p> <p>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!</p> <p>I just made the .exe so you can just use that and its easier! Here: <a href="http://adf.ly/XRjRH" rel="nofollow">http://adf.ly/XRjRH</a></p>

2010-12-28T07:27:25-08:00Ryhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4176376/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577522-wiki-recent-changes-checker/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577522 by <a href="/recipes/users/4176376/">Ry</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/beautifulsoup/">beautifulsoup</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python/">python</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/ubuntu/">ubuntu</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/wiki/">wiki</a>). </p> <p>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.</p>

2009-07-24T05:59:43-07:00denishttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4168005/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576841-bier-souppy-a-small-example-of-beautifulsoup/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576841 by <a href="/recipes/users/4168005/">denis</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/beautifulsoup/">beautifulsoup</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/bier/">bier</a>). Revision 3. </p> <p>bier-soup.py reads html tables like those in <a href="http://www.bier1.de" rel="nofollow">http://www.bier1.de</a> and writes plain text files, as a small example of BeautifulSoup</p>