In terms of taking a website (e.g. one of the travel pages), scraping its content and converting it into a useful format (e.g. something suitable for the Kindle), Beautiful Souped Up really isn’t the tool for the job. The Beautiful Souped Up utility I’ve written here really is aimed at programmers who are already familiar with the Python programming language and the Beautiful Soup software library.

Beautiful Souped Up is just a tool that lets programmers meddle around a little with the page to figure out what code they’d need to write to extract the pieces of the page they’re after. It doesn’t do the other work required in a real screen scraper such as retrieving the page in the first place and converting the extracted pieces of text into an appropriate format. For this reason, Beautiful Souped Up really isn’t a complete screen scraping solution. It just helps a little in the meddling stage. The rest of the work requires a lot more Python code.

Theoretically, using Beautiful Soup you could take whatever pieces of the webpage’s HTML you’re after and convert it whatever format you want, whether that be some format that lets you read it on the Kindle or some other format altogether. Actually programming it to do such a thing however would be a fairly involved process, especially when the output has to be converted to comply with a specific format such as something suitable for the Kindle. So unfortunately I can’t be of much help given you’re circumstances.

I am not a programmer but this code looks like it would make what i want pretty easy. I am looking for a easy tool to scrape websites and convert them to something my Kindle can read.

In particular I want to be able to scape VirtualTourist.Com on a particular city or country.

For example I am going to Hamburg in two weeks. The page for info is:

http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Germany/Freie_und_Hansestadt_Hamburg/Hamburg-56480/TravelGuide-Hamburg.html

What would this look like after scaping in Beautiful Soup?

Yep, my .flac files show up with my regular artists files in media player. I haven’t tried WMP Tag Plus though (I’m using the tag support plugin that I link to above in my post), so WMP Tag Plus may have something to do with your .flac files not showing up under artists on your machine. All I can suggest is that you try the tag plugin I’ve linked to above and see how that goes.

Good luck!

I don’t currently have the box with me and it’ll be about a month before I do again. I also don’t have a legitimate boxed copy at the moment to compare against unfortunately. The fake discs I got have Adobe graphics printed on them, though the quality of the graphics suggest that a fairly low-end printer was used; perhaps a sign of a fake. For me the “Serial Fix” folder was the dead giveaway. If you haven’t already, I’d take a look at the directory structure of your discs and see if there’s anything equally as obvious.

Can you see any difference from original software?

Thanks in advance!

Fantastic! Glad to hear you were able to use the library.

Again, thanks a lot!
Cheers.
/SJ