PyBites.py

PyBites.py

"""Written on iPhone with the Pythonista 3 app 

As a joke for the PyBites guys, I don't see why it wouldn't work anywhere else though. They always 
start off their newsletter annoucements with:

from @PyBites import newsletter

So I turned it into actual code that pulls their feed and opens their latest newsletter in a browser :)
"""
import os
import requests
import webbrowser

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from re import sub


def newsletter():
	"""Parses rss feed
	
	It pulls out the articles and displays their title, link, and description.
	"""
	# link to the newsletter
	url = 'http://us14.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=822043293f280259d4b8d2a3e&id=ac7e2eb9ef'
	
	# retrieve page and extract content
	r = requests.get(url)
	html = r.text
	
	# turn into soup object
	soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
	news = soup.find_all('li', class_='campaign')
	
	# iterate over all the newsletters
	for i, link in enumerate(news):
		if i == 0:
			article = link.a['href']
		print(link.text, '\n', link.a['href'])
	
	# open up the latest one
	webbrowser.open(article)
	

def main():
	newsletter()
	

if __name__ == "__main__":
	main()