getTitle.py

# usage - run: 
# python getTitle.py URL

from urllib2 import urlopen
import sched, time
from time import gmtime, strftime
import lxml.html
import sys
url = sys.argv[1]
print url

s = sched.scheduler(time.time, time.sleep)
count = 0
def check_title(arg): 
    global count
    tree = lxml.html.parse(urlopen(url+"?"+str(count)))
    pi = tree.xpath("//title")[0] 
    now = strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", gmtime())
    print (now + " : " + pi.text)
    count += 1
    s.enter(2, 1, check_title, (arg,))


s.enter(2, 1, check_title, (s,))
s.run()