Download all gifs from a thebos.co (TheBosco) gif page

thebosco_gif_extractor.py

import urllib2
from os import path
from urlparse import urlsplit

dir = path.join(path.expanduser("~"),'Downloads')
url = "http://thebos.co/e/venmohq-celebration"
page = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(page)

data = soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class':'event-tile-view'})
for tag in data:
    # slicing needed to cut off the '_180' from the filename
    img_url = tag.find('img').attrs['raw'][:-8]+'.gif'
    try:
        image = urllib2.urlopen(img_url).read()
        img_name = path.basename(urlsplit(img_url)[2])
        with open(path.join(dir, img_name),'wb') as f:
            f.write(image)
        print img_name
    except:
        print "error with file {}".format(img_url)
        pass