Searching through webpage

Question

Hey I\'m working on a Python project that requires I look through a webpage. I want to look through to find a specific text and if it finds the text, then it prints something ou

Answer 1

You could do something simple like:

import urllib2
import re

html_content = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.domain.com').read()

matches = re.findall('regex of string to find', html_content);

if len(matches) == 0: 
   print 'I did not find anything'
else:
   print 'My string is in the html'