Scrapes the Mueller report from the wired's embedded article reader.

MuellerReportScaper.py

"""
Wired Article with embeded web-reader: https://www.wired.com/story/mueller-report-russia-redacted-trump-barr-read/

How to use this script:
- Python3 & installed requests package (run: 'pip install requests')
- Create "report" folder in the same directory as this script
- run: 'python MuellerReportScraper.py'
"""
import os
import requests


url = "https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5955214/pages/Mueller-report-p{page_no}-large.gif"
folder = "./report"
max_page = 448
for i in range (1, max_page + 1):

    try:
        r = requests.get(
            url.replace('{page_no}', str(i))
        )

        with open(
            os.path.join(folder, "%s.gif" % i), 'wb'
        ) as f:
            f.write(r.content)
        
        print("[SUCCESS] Scraped page %s" % i)

    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: 
        print("[ERROR] Downloading page %s (%s)" % (i, e))