Grabbing text from a webpage

Question

I would like to write a program that will find bus stop times and update my personal webpage accordingly.

If I were to do this manually I would

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Answer 1

What you're asking about is called "web scraping." I'm sure if you google around you'll find some stuff, but the core notion is that you want to open a connection to the website, slurp in the HTML, parse it and identify the chunks you want.

The Python Wiki has a good lot of stuff on this.