Patreon Tracker

patreon.py

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## Patreon Tracker                                                               ##
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## Copyright (c) 2015 Carter Yagemann                                            ##
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## Configuration
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# Patreon account to parse
account = ""
# Directory to output CSV file
out_dir = ""

## Code
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from lxml import html
import requests
import time

# Fetch HTML page
page = requests.get('https://www.patreon.com/' + account)
tree = html.fromstring(page.text)

# Scrape data
patrons = tree.xpath('//div[@id="totalPatrons"]/text()')[0].strip()
total_earnings = tree.xpath('//span[@id="totalEarnings"]/text()')[0].strip().translate(None, '$,')

# Write to file
date = time.strftime("%m/%d/%Y")
file = open(out_dir + account + ".csv", "a")
file.write(date + ", " + total_earnings + ", " + patrons + "\n")