pulling info from website

[bob]

i am trying to write a script for Xbox media center that will pull
information from the bbc news website and display the headlines , how do i
pull this info into a list???

 

[Duncan Booth]

i am trying to write a script for Xbox media center that will pull
information from the bbc news website and display the headlines , how
do i pull this info into a list???

Google for "Python RSS reader" and read some of the results.

http://effbot.org/zone/effnews.htm probably answers many of your questions,
especially since he uses the BBC news headlines as an example.

 

[Rick Holbert]

Bob,

Have a look at feedparser:

http://www.feedparser.org/
http://diveintomark.org/projects/feed_parser/

For bbc news feeds, I use the following url:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/syndication/feeds/news/ukfs_news/front_page/rss091.xml

 

[Jorgen Grahn]

Google for "Python RSS reader" and read some of the results.

And for the general (and fundamentally broken) approach, google for "web
scraping".

/Jorgen