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Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site?

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2015-11-29 18:54 -0800
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Subject Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site?
From ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com>

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On Sunday, November 29, 2015 at 9:32:22 PM UTC-5, Cem Karan wrote:
> You might want to look into Beautiful Soup (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beautifulsoup4), which is an HTML screen-scraping tool.  I've never used it, but I've heard good things about it.
> 
> Good luck,
> Cem Karan
> 
> On Nov 29, 2015, at 7:49 PM, ryguy7272 wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to figure out how to count words in a web site.  Here is a sample of the link I want to scrape data from and count specific words.
> > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=STRP+Headlines
> > 
> > I only want to count certain words, like 'fraud', 'lawsuit', etc.  I want to have a way to control for specific words.  I have a couple Python scripts that do this for a text file, but not for a web site.  I can post that, if that's helpful.
> > 
> > -- 
> > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Ok, this small script will grab everything from the link.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
r = requests.get("http://finance.yahoo.com/q/h?s=STRP+Headlines")
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content)
htmltext = soup.prettify()
print htmltext


Now, how can I count specific words like 'fraud' and 'lawsuit'?

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How can I count word frequency in a web site? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 16:49 -0800
  Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site? Cem Karan <cfkaran2@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 21:31 -0500
    Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 18:54 -0800
      Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site? Michiel Overtoom <motoom@xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-30 08:56 +0100
  Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-30 03:51 +0100
    Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 07:04 -0800
  Re: How can I count word frequency in a web site? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 07:04 -0800

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