HTML (hypertext markup language) is how we format text for the web. In Python we can both process existing HTML and create our own. This project gives you a chance to do both. You'll be mining an existing webpage for data to create your own (simpler page).

First: The basics of writing html
A lot of you probably have some familiarity with html. Also, there is an html tutorial on Code Academy that will give you the basics.
For this project, the webpages we create will be straight out of the early 90s. Black text on a white background with a few images. Fancy webpages will include colored text and layout with tables!
To write a webpage, you need to:
• Create a file named with an .html extension (I am going to call mine superweb.html)
• Open the file for writing: file = open("C:UsersPythongeneratedsuperweb.html", "wt")
• Use the file.write() command to write out strings with the html needed to build your page
• When you are done, open your .html file using a web browser to check out your new page
• Of course, you'll want to use functions to organize your code or you'll just end up with one super-long write command (not a good idea).

Here is an example of the simplest page you could write. (You may have to specify the full path the html file)
def makePage():
#replace the directory in the line below with the path to your file
file = open("C:UsersPythongeneratedsuperweb.html", "wt")
file.write("""<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transition//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head><title>I made this page with Python!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>MY PYTHON PAGE!!!</h1>
</body>
</html>""")

file.close()

Go ahead and copy this code into JES. Run the function and look at the page created. Make sure you understand how it is working
Scraping HTML from existing sites
In the headline lab, we saved a local, static copy of the Otter Realm website to get the featured headlines. But the web is always changing so we'd like to be able to get live data from the current version of a website. Luckily the urllib module (<- LINK) let's us open, read and then close a URL.

The Lab
Ok, now that we can read from a URL, get data out of the html (Just like in the headline lab), and write a page, we can finally get started on the lab itself. For today's lab
1. Choose a website that you frequent that has data (text) that could be scraped from it's HTML (this could be Facebook, CNN, Kitty Pictures, whatever)
2. Write some code that collects at least 10 pieces of information from the webiste (e.g. friends from Facebook, or headlines from CNN, comments on kitty pictures, etc)
3. Create a new web page that displays ONLY the information you collected in step 2
The page you create can be very simple. You only need to display the information in a readable format. No fancy formatting required
To get checked off, be prepared to show:
1. The original website you got your data from
2. Your code as Name.py format (Please add your name as a comment in the beginning of your program. )
3. Your resulting html page that you created

HTML (hypertext markup language) is how we format text for the web....