gold_price_scraper.py

import threading

"""
it returns the price of gold per unit of mesghal form http://tgju.org 
"""


def scraper():
    # import libraries
    import urllib.request
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

    # specify the url
    quote_page = 'https://www.tgju.org/profile/mesghal'

    # query the website and return the html to the variable 'page'
    page = urllib.request.urlopen(quote_page)

    # parse the html using beautiful soup and store in the variable 'soup'
    soup = BeautifulSoup(page, 'html.parser')

    # find the span tag with data-col attribute
    name_box = soup.find("span", {"data-col": "info.last_trade.PDrCotVal"})

    # define variable for where we'll store the name of our stock
    name = name_box.text.strip()  # strip() is used to remove starting and trailing
    return name


def timer():
    threading.Timer(5.0, timer).start()
    print(scraper())


timer()