Re^3: fix the problem of the web crawler

Here are a couple more (very specific) hints:

Uncomment out the print page line so you can see the content you are scraping (or just go to the appropriate URL and view source).
Change this part of the regex since it is apparently out-of-date: <td\sclass="coauthor"\salign="right"\sbgcolor="[^"]+">

Also, I don't mean to be a jerk, but it is really better for you if you work through this yourself. Instead of sending me messages, you should show what you are trying here and people will be more willing to help when they've seen that you are indeed making a noble effort. Like the ancient saying goes: "Monks help those that help themselves!"

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Re^4: fix the problem of the web crawler by ati (Initiate) on Nov 09, 2012 at 14:55 UTC
thanks to you, I almost found the error of the regex but because there are different styles on the text authors there are crawled just the authors who match the firs style, they with the different one does not. I need to make any union of two regex expresions to take both of them. `<td\sclass="coauthor"\sstyle="text-align:right;background:[^"]+"><a\sh +ref="([^"]+)">([^>]+)<\/a>` [download] here to put any union or "and" expression `<td\sclass="coauthor"\sstyle="text-align:right;"><a\shref="([^"]+)">([^>]+)<\/a>` I mean between of this two parts it is needed any union expresion(I don't know what to put), because with "or" \| it takes still just the first and authors with the second style does not match.. Am I right, or not? Any suggestion?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: fix the problem of the web crawler by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Nov 09, 2012 at 15:29 UTC
In order to grab things matching both of these formats (and to catch any future style variations), you can sort of just ignore the style information. So, you know that you definitely want to match `<td\sclass="coauthor"`as well as `><a\shref="([^"]+)">([^>]+)<\/a>`, but you almost don't care about what is in between, right? The reason I say "almost don't care" is because you want to match everything EXCEPT a closing '`>`' to make sure your regex doesn't match too much. `[^>]*` matches 0 or more characters that are not the character '`>`'.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: fix the problem of the web crawler by ati (Initiate) on Nov 10, 2012 at 16:04 UTC
I solved it, thousand thanks to you. now it works as before. but there is another problem, if you can suggest me what I can do. the authors with names of more than 3 parts are not crawled, and authors containing ( ' , .Jr, II, III). example this authors: `Norie De La Cruz Norm O'Neill Norman L. Guinasso Jr. Norris Milton II Northrup Fowler III Noor Asna Fazli Abdul Samad N. S. S. S. N. Usha Devi Niels H. M. Aan de Brugh` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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