Question

How can I make this script grab the “nmv-fas” from the link name and create a directory with that name then place all the files that are downloaded in that directory.

all.html:

<a href="http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.45.nmv-fas">http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.45.nmv-fas</a>
<a href="http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.46.nmv-fas">http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.46.nmv-fas</a>
<a href="http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.47.nmv-fas">http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.47.nmv-fas</a>
<a href="http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.48.nmv-fas">http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.48.nmv-fas</a>
<a href="http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.49.nmv-fas">http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.49.nmv-fas</a>
<a href="http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.50.nmv-fas">http://www.youversion.com/bible/gen.50.nmv-fas</a>
<a href="http://www.youversion.com/bible/exod.1.nmv-fas">http://www.youversion.com/bible/exod.1.nmv-fas</a>
<a href="http://www.youversion.com/bible/exod.2.nmv-fas">http://www.youversion.com/bible/exod.2.nmv-fas</a>
<a href="http://www.youversion.com/bible/exod.3.nmv-fas">http://www.youversion.com/bible/exod.3.nmv-fas</a>    

files saved in folder named:

nmv-fas

python:

import lxml.html as html
import urllib
import urlparse
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import re

root = html.parse(open('all.html'))
for link in root.findall('//a'):
  url = link.get('href')
  name = urlparse.urlparse(url).path.split('/')[-1]
  f = urllib.urlopen(url)
  s = f.read()
  f.close()
  soup = BeautifulSoup(s)
  articleTag = soup.html.body.article
  converted = str(articleTag)
  open(name, 'w').write(converted)

Answer 1

You could use the lxml module to parse links out of the file, and then use urllib to download each link. Reading the links might look like this:

import lxml.html as html

root = html.parse(open('links.html'))
for link in root.findall('//a'):
  url = link.get('href')

You can download a link to a file using urllib.urlopen:

import urllib
import urlparse

# extract the final path component and use it as
# the local filename.
name = urlparse.urlparse(url).path.split('/')[-1]

fd = urllib.urlopen(url)
open(name, 'w').write(fd.read())

Put these together and you should have something similar to what you want.