given an url, retrieve name and ids of all voters

scrape_oow_abstracts.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# huge work-in-progress
+# given an abstract page, retrieve the names and ids of all of the voters
+
+import re
+import urllib2
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+url = 'https://mix.oracle.com/events/oow11/proposals/10916-oracle-11gr2-cluster-upgrade-success-story-a-complete-life-cycle'
+page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
+
+
+voters = soup.findAll('a',{"href":re.compile('/events/oow11/voting/view/'),"title":True})
+
+for voter in voters:
+	name = voter.get('title').lower()
+	id = re.findall(r'\d{3,}',voter.get('href'))[0]
+	print name, id