AkaSig

Here is a set of resources for scraping the web with the help of Python. The best solution seems to be Mechanize plus Beautiful Soup.

• Beautiful Soup
• Mechanize
• Mechanize-like

See also :

• ClientTable (see also this comment)
• DOMForm
• Pull parser
• wwwsearch ’s FAQ
• Simon Willison’s weblog on this topic
• Dive Into Python’s tutorial on HTML processing

Off-topic : proxomitron looks like a nice (python-friendly ?) filtering proxy.

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