# URL extractor # Copyright 2004, Paul McGuire from pyparsing import Literal,Suppress,CharsNotIn,CaselessLiteral,\ Word,dblQuotedString,alphanums,SkipTo,makeHTMLTags import urllib import pprint # Define the pyparsing grammar for a URL, that is: # URLlink ::= linkText # URL ::= doubleQuotedString | alphanumericWordPath # Note that whitespace may appear just about anywhere in the link. Note also # that it is not necessary to explicitly show this in the pyparsing grammar; by default, # pyparsing skips over whitespace between tokens. linkOpenTag,linkCloseTag = makeHTMLTags("a") link = linkOpenTag + SkipTo(linkCloseTag).setResultsName("body") + linkCloseTag.suppress() # Go get some HTML with some links in it. serverListPage = urllib.urlopen( "http://www.google.com" ) htmlText = serverListPage.read() serverListPage.close() # scanString is a generator that loops through the input htmlText, and for each # match yields the tokens and start and end locations (for this application, we are # not interested in the start and end values). for toks,strt,end in link.scanString(htmlText): print toks.startA.href,"->",toks.body # Create dictionary from list comprehension, assembled from each pair of tokens returned # from a matched URL. pprint.pprint( dict( [ (toks.body,toks.startA.href) for toks,strt,end in link.scanString(htmlText) ] ) )