Indexer for ECB press releases

ecb_indexer.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
import re, requests, time
from lxml import html

links = []

for date in range(1998, 2020+1):
    url = 'https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pressconf/{}/html/index_include.en.html'.format(date)
    r = requests.get(url)
    tree = html.fromstring(r.content)
    links_y = tree.xpath("//a/span[contains(text(),'English')]/../@href")
    
    links.extend(links_y)
    
    print(str(date) + ": found {} links".format(len(links)))
    
print("In total {} links found".format(len(links)))
print("Economic Emergency solved!!")