For Joe

meh.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
import json
import clipboard

first_level_categories = {74: {}, 75: {}, 134: {}, 79: {}, 53: {}, 86: {}, 110: {}, 76: {}, 77: {}}

# Get 2nd level categories
for category in first_level_categories:
    r = requests.get('http://www.beertutor.com/beers/index.php?t=sub_pages&cat=' + str(category))

    all_categories = re.findall('t=sub_pages&cat=.*"',r.text)

    category_ids = []

    for c in all_categories:
        category_ids.append(int(c.split('&cat=')[1].split('"')[0]))

    if category_ids:
        if category_ids[0] == category:
            if len(category_ids) == 1:
                print 'No subcategories'
                # Skip it
                continue

    for c in category_ids:
        first_level_categories[category][c] = []

    print first_level_categories

clipboard.copy(json.dumps(first_level_categories))