old.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from sys import argv
import requests

def brownie_points(user):
    base_url = 'https://freecodecamp.com/'
    res = requests.get(base_url + user)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(res.text, 'html.parser')
    points = soup.select('h1.text-primary')
    return points[0].string
    
def main():
    print brownie_points(argv[1])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()