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[jerro]

Hello,

For a project I have, I need to crawl a certain web page and then extract information from it. The web page is of course in HTML format. Does anyone know good tools in which I can specify something like "HTML regular expressions" or any other specification that can help me extract information from HTML web pages? So for example, I can tell that tool that everything which is between <div class=product_price>xxx</div> will be rewritten in the XML as <price>xxx</price> under a certain position in the XML.

Thanks.

[WingedPanther]

Regular expressions can be used to extract information from an HTML document, as can a text processor. It depends a LOT on what exactly you're trying to do, what languages you're familiar with already, and how automated it has to be.

[TkTech]

Lookup the PHP DOM project.