I'd like to grab daily sunrise/sunset times from a web site. Is it possible to scrape web content with Python? what are the modules used? Is there any tutorial available?
Use urllib2 in combination with the brilliant BeautifulSoup library:
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
# or if you're using BeautifulSoup4:
# from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen('http://example.com').read())
for row in soup('table', {'class': 'spad'})[0].tbody('tr'):
tds = row('td')
print tds[0].string, tds[1].string
# will print date and sunrise