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zem52887 · May 19th, 2006, 5:07 PM

from urllib2 import urlopen
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup


industry_url = "http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/110.html"

def get_company_index(industry_url):
        soup  = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(industry_url))
        index_link = soup.fetch("table")[11].fetch("a")[2]
        return index_link['href']

print get_company_index(industry_url)

about time?

however, that's for when industry_url = a specific industry...

I need to add in a for loop if I want it to work in conjunction with the get_industry_url code that you provided, no??

May 19th, 2006, 5:07 PM	#73
zem52887 Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 127 Rep Power: 3	(Toggle Plain Text) from urllib2 import urlopen from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup industry_url = "http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/110.html" def get_company_index(industry_url): soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(industry_url)) index_link = soup.fetch("table")[11].fetch("a")[2] return index_link['href'] print get_company_index(industry_url) from urllib2 import urlopen from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup industry_url = "http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/110.html" def get_company_index(industry_url): soup = BeautifulSoup(urlopen(industry_url)) index_link = soup.fetch("table")[11].fetch("a")[2] return index_link['href'] print get_company_index(industry_url) about time? however, that's for when industry_url = a specific industry... I need to add in a for loop if I want it to work in conjunction with the get_industry_url code that you provided, no??