How can I scrape a cgi python script from website?
Question
I have just started learning about webscraping using selenium and mechanize with great results. I was wondering if it was at all possible to scrape a cgi python script from a site as well so I can replicate the sites functionality offline.
Here is an example script.
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/cgi-bin/hello.py
When I attempt to scrape this file I get the html output from the script instead of the script itself. Which is this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Hello Word - First CGI Program</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Hello Word! This is my first CGI program</h2>
</body>
</html>
The details of the python script can be found here:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_cgi_programming.htm
If you can provide any insight I would be extremely grateful.
Thanks
1 answers
solution1
1 2013-11-21 09:47:39
Each site consists of two parts: the back-end and front-end.
"Back-end" means on the server side, usually PHP, Python, ASP or JSP languages.
"Front-end" means client side: HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
You, as a surfer view only the front-end, and this is what you scrape. You have no access to the back end.
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