How to Read From a Website With Python
One of the Python programming language's strength comes through the availability of built-in functions. Because of the variety of these functions, you can perform a variety of tasks with relative ease. For example, using the functions included in the "urllib2" module, you can pull data from a webpage to store in a variable. This way, you can do with the data whatever you wish.
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Instructions
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Import the "urllib2" library:
>>>import urllib2
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Request data from a URL through the "urlopen" function:
>>>info = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com')
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Print the data in the variable. The variable will contain the source code for the webpage:
>>>print info.read(89) //reads 89 characters from the source file
html><html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
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