How to search for specific text from a website, retrieve and use it with google app engine (python)?

Question

I'm trying to retrieve basically this block of text from www.crossfit.com.

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Monday 110516

Complete as many rounds as possible in five minutes of:

275 pound Deadlift, 3 reps

115 pound Push press, 7 reps

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It's basically just the date (Monday yymmdd), and a short description of a workout. The site updates daily with a new workout. I want to write a google app using the python version that will pull the daily workout automatically. Where should I start? I followed along google's helloworld example and that's about as much as I know about html, python, and google apps.

Answer 1

Instead of parsing the HTML yourself, use the already provided XML feed: http://www.crossfit.com/index.xml.

You can parse the XML feed in python 2.5 with xml.etree.ElementTree.