A simple example of scraping a WA Department of Licensing web page and pulling out the wait times.

dmv_scraper.py

from lxml import html
import requests
import re


# URL for DMV office page.
DMV_URL = "https://fortress.wa.gov/dol/dolprod/dsdoffices/OfficeInfo.aspx?cid=45&oid=23"

# Get the page content.
page = requests.get(DMV_URL)

# Parse the HTML and create a tree.
tree = html.fromstring(page.content)

# Get the wait times.
wait_times = tree.xpath('//*[@id="ctl00_Main_waittime"]/text()')

# Get just the time rows.
wait_times = [x for x in wait_times if x.strip()][1:]

# Regex out the hours and minutes
time_regex = re.compile("(\d+).*?(\d+).*")

# Find the wait time
hours, minutes = time_regex.match(wait_times[0]).groups()

# Convert to integers and normalize to minutes.
minutes = int(minutes) + int(hours) * 60