How to Read From a Website With Python
- 1). Import the "urllib2" library:
>>>import urllib2 - 2). Request data from a URL through the "urlopen" function:
>>>info = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com') - 3). 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">