I am trying to scrape a website, but the thing that I want to get is not in the source code.  But it does appear when i use firebug.  Is there a way to scrape from the firebug code as opposed to the source code?
If the answer's not in the source code (possibly obfuscated, encoded, etc), then it was probably retrieved after the page loaded with an XmlHTTPRequest.  You can use the 'network' panel in Firebug to see what other pieces of data the page loaded, and what requests it made to load them.
(You may have to enable the network panel and then reload the page/start over)
Scraping a website in python with firebug?