[Zope] HTML parsers and Wget like function

[Dennis Allison]

Python's library provides urllib and htmllib.  You'll probably want to
write your method either as an external method or a product.

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Grant Morganryuuguu wrote:

> 
> I am considering Zope/python for a project and would like to get some pointers to see if this is a reasonable fit.
> I need to get a URL from the web, parse the HTML ,extract some data from the page, rewrite the <a href> tags and display it on the website.
> I found the HTML parser in library http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/markup.html and
> http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ (which is down now but was up a couple of days ago)
> does anyone have any other suggestions for manipulating HTML in Zope/python.
> For getting the the page from a URL is there something like Wget (unix program) in Zope for this - I searched around the manual but did not see anything.
> 
> Thanks,
> Grant
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