Python: Scrape pages and extract information

I was amazed at how incredibly easy it was to scrape pages using Python.

To download the page markup, use:

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1.import urllib

2.content = urllib.urlopen("http://finance.google.com/finance?q=IBM").read()

Once you have the content, simply use regex to parse the bit you want.

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1.import re

2.m = re.search('class="pr".*?>(.*?)<', content)

3. 

4.if m:

5.  quote = m.group(1)

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