Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot)

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If you are talking about accessing a web page, rather than an image, then what you want to do is known as 'screen scraping'. 

One of the best tools for this is called BeautifulSoup. 

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

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Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) logan.c.graham@gmail.com - 2013-05-24 10:32 -0700
  Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-24 15:41 -0400
  RE: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-25 02:36 +0300
    Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-05-25 18:33 -0700
      Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) logan.c.graham@gmail.com - 2013-05-27 17:58 -0700
        RE: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com> - 2013-05-28 04:21 +0300
        RE: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Phil Connell <pconnell@gmail.com> - 2013-05-28 07:40 +0100
  Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-24 21:16 -0400
  Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 13:22 +1000
    Re: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) logan.c.graham@gmail.com - 2013-05-25 17:48 -0700
  Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) "neil.suffield@gmail.com" <neil.suffield@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 03:13 -0700
  Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) "neil.suffield@gmail.com" <neil.suffield@gmail.com> - 2013-05-25 03:15 -0700

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