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  vBulletin scraper -- feasible? "Andrew D'Angelo" <excel@pharcyde.org> - 2012-06-25 14:10 -0500
    RE: vBulletin scraper -- feasible? Nick Cash <nick.cash@npcinternational.com> - 2012-06-25 19:44 +0000
      Re: vBulletin scraper -- feasible? "Andrew D'Angelo" <excel@pharcyde.org> - 2012-06-26 10:20 -0500

#24438 — vBulletin scraper -- feasible?

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. 

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#24441

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'd say 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 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. 


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#24466

Thanks, this seems to be just what I need. 

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