An extremely concise Python web page capturing program

 

The Code is as follows:

 

import timeimport urllibimport sysimport stringfrom HTMLParser import HTMLParserticker_list = [socl, ibb, pnqi, eirl, ita, iai, xsd, vbk, dfe, qqq, ewi, pbd]ticker = class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):    previous_data =     text_before_amp =         def handle_data(self, data):        starttag_text = self.get_starttag_text()                if -1!=string.find(data, ((%s) % ticker).upper()) and -1!=string.find(starttag_text, 

): Sys. stdout. write (time. strftime (% d/% m/% Y) +) if! = Self. text_before_amp: sys. stdout. write (self. text_before_amp + &) sys. stdout. write (data) if-1! = String. find (str (starttag_text), yfs_g53 _ % s % ticker. lower () and-1 = string. find (data,-): sys. stdout. write (+ data) if-1! = String. find (str (starttag_text), yfs_h53 _ % s % ticker. lower (): print, data self. previous_data = data def handle_entityref (self, name): if amp = name and-1! = String. find (self. get_starttag_text (),): self. text_before_amp = self. previous_data for t in ticker_list: ticker = t parser = MyHTMLParser () f = urllib. urlopen (http://finance.yahoo.com/q? S = % s % ticker) html_string = f. read () parser. feed (html_string)

 

Sample output:

 

03/05/2014Global X Social Media Index ETF (SOCL)17.4117.8303/05/2014iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology (IBB)227.70233.0703/05/2014PowerShares NASDAQ Internet (PNQI)62.1562.9803/05/2014iShares MSCI Ireland Capped (EIRL)38.2838.7903/05/2014iShares US Aerospace & Defense (ITA)108.32109.7003/05/2014iShares US Broker-Dealers (IAI)37.4637.8903/05/2014SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (XSD)66.8967.5903/05/2014Vanguard Small Cap Growth ETF (VBK)119.46120.7003/05/2014WisdomTree Europe SmallCap Dividend (DFE)62.0262.6103/05/2014PowerShares QQQ (QQQ)87.2888.1103/05/2014iShares MSCI Italy Capped (EWI)17.8918.0303/05/2014PowerShares Global Clean Energy (PBD)13.0213.08