Are there existing template extract libraries in either python or php? Perl has Template::Extract, but I haven’t been able to find a similar implementation in either python or php.
The only thing close in python that I could find is TemplateMaker (http://code.google.com/p/templatemaker/), but that’s not really a template extraction library.
After digging around some more I found a solution to exactly what I was looking for. filippo posted a list of python solutions for screen scraping in this post: Options for HTML scraping? among which is a package called scrapemark ( http://arshaw.com/scrapemark/ ).
Hope this helps anyone else who is looking for the same solution.