vBulletin scraper -- feasible?

[Andrew D'Angelo]

Taking a look through vBulletin's HTML, I was wondering whether it would be
overly difficult to parse it into nice, manipulatible data.
I'd suppose my ultimate goal would be to dynamically parse a vBulletin and
feed it into a locally hosted NNTP server.

 

[Nick Cash]

You may want to look into http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
It's made for parsing (potentially bad) HTML, and is quite easy to use. I'dsay it's quite feasible.

Thanks,
Nick Cash
NPC International

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Subject: vBulletin scraper -- feasible?

Taking a look through vBulletin's HTML, I was wondering whether it would beoverly difficult to parse it into nice, manipulatible data.
I'd suppose my ultimate goal would be to dynamically parse a vBulletin and feed it into a locally hosted NNTP server.

 

[Andrew D'Angelo]

Thanks, this seems to be just what I need.