How do I get data out of HTML?

Try Beautiful Soup:

http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup

Beautiful Soup is more forgiving than other parsers in that it won’t choke on bad markup.

If you want to parse HTML into a structure compatible with Python’s ElementTree library, you can use the ElementSoup adapter:

http://effbot.org/zone/element-soup.htm

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