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A Python module to make web scraping a "one-line" job.

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Tal0n A Python module to make it a simple task to scrape a website. Example: Talon.ScrapeFunction(URL).

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Python Module Dependencies:

1.)os 2.)requests 3.)wget 4.)BeautifulSoup

How To Use:

1.) Drag Talon.pyc to your project folder. 2.) In the top of your program’s script put “import Talon” without quotations. 3.) Call the function you so desire.

How To Modify Source:

1.) Open Talon.py in your preferred text editor or IDE. 2.) Go to town modifying the code. It’s just plain old Python.

Functions:

Talon.getImages(URL) - Extracts image sources from HTML and generates an HTML file containing the images. (images.html)

Talon.getLinks(URL) - Extracts all href links from HTML and generates a TXT file containing the link addresses. (links.txt)

Talon.getSource(URL) - Downloads the HTML file from the url you chose. (source.html)

Talon.getContent(URL) - Extracts all of the content in a webpage. Content: ‘h1’, ‘h2’, ‘span’, ‘p’. (content.txt)

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