Python Web Parsing Help

[ceopirate]

Im working on a little project to retrieve videos from certain sites. Im trying to findout how to save a video file that i and if i am parsing the html correctly I am new to this side of python..

import urllib
import re


url = "https://www.videourl"
htmlfile = urllib.urlopen(url)
htmltext = htmlfile.read()
regex = '<meta property="og:video" content="http://www.urlinpagesource;version=3">'
video = re.compile(regex)

[Elk]

Well first off that's now how you use regex:

import re

my_string = 'Test string to parse'

#Either pre-compile the regex if you are going to reuse it
regex = re.compile('Test')
m = regex.match(my_string)

# Or just use a regex once
m = re.match('test', my_string)

but apart from that you do not want to be parsing HTML with regular expressions. Take a look at http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ which will make your life a lot easier.