Web scraping with regular expressions

Richard Penman

18 Jan 2013CPOL

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Using regular expressions for web scraping is sometimes criticized, but I believe they still have their place, particularly for one-off scrapes. Let's say I want to extract the title of a particular webpage - here is an implementation using BeautifulSoup, lxml, and regular expressions:import reimpor

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