Hi
I'm trying to learn python by doing something that I think it would be
nice; Search lyrics using some websites like www.musicsonglyrics.com,
I am trying to parse the html code and get the information that i need.
Since I am not very good with programing I am stuck on this part.
Let's take the www.musicsonglyrics.com website as an example. So let's
say Metallica lyrics would be on www.musicsonglyrics.com/M.htm. Getting
the first letter, requesting the M.htm page and checking if Metallica is
in the html code is easy. Here is what I did up to now:
artist = raw_input("Name of the artist: ")
music = raw_input("Name of the music: ")
url = "http://www.musicsongly rics.com/" + artist[0].capitalize() + ".htm"
f =
urllib2.urlopen (url)
found = 0
lines = f.readlines()
f.close()
for x in lines:
if x.find(artist) != -1:
found = 1
if found:
print "OK"
else:
print "No"
The problem is once I have the M.htm page I don't now how to get from
the html code the "http://www.musicsongly rics.com/M/Metallica/Metallica
lyrics.htm" link to proceed with the search. I tried to read about
Regular Expressions but I think I'm to dumb for it.
Any ideas? Maybe my approach is completely wrong....
Appreciate any help
Gustavo
I'm trying to learn python by doing something that I think it would be
nice; Search lyrics using some websites like www.musicsonglyrics.com,
I am trying to parse the html code and get the information that i need.
Since I am not very good with programing I am stuck on this part.
Let's take the www.musicsonglyrics.com website as an example. So let's
say Metallica lyrics would be on www.musicsonglyrics.com/M.htm. Getting
the first letter, requesting the M.htm page and checking if Metallica is
in the html code is easy. Here is what I did up to now:
artist = raw_input("Name of the artist: ")
music = raw_input("Name of the music: ")
url = "http://www.musicsongly rics.com/" + artist[0].capitalize() + ".htm"
f =
urllib2.urlopen (url)
found = 0
lines = f.readlines()
f.close()
for x in lines:
if x.find(artist) != -1:
found = 1
if found:
print "OK"
else:
print "No"
The problem is once I have the M.htm page I don't now how to get from
the html code the "http://www.musicsongly rics.com/M/Metallica/Metallica
lyrics.htm" link to proceed with the search. I tried to read about
Regular Expressions but I think I'm to dumb for it.
Any ideas? Maybe my approach is completely wrong....
Appreciate any help
Gustavo
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