X-Received: by 10.224.59.205 with SMTP id m13mr10504550qah.7.1369476922280; Sat, 25 May 2013 03:15:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.1.197 with SMTP id 5mr1960487qeo.24.1369476922215; Sat, 25 May 2013 03:15:22 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!ch1no1072455qab.0!news-out.google.com!y6ni51375qax.0!nntp.google.com!ch1no1072454qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 03:15:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=78.157.205.159; posting-account=40lsnQoAAADcsuPdte7iEni6PVD6H0hp NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.157.205.159 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <29195880-e277-486e-a5dc-77110b093d4e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Total Beginner - Extracting Data from a Database Online (Screenshot) From: "neil.suffield@gmail.com" Injection-Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 10:15:22 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:45986 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/