excuse.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- 
"""excuse.py

Usage:
    excuse.py 

Arguments:
    -h --help

"""

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import sys
from docopt import docopt


def main():
    try:
        url = 'http://programmingexcuses.com/'
        r = requests.get(url)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content)
        excuse = soup.find('center')
        if excuse is not None:
            excuse = excuse.get_text()
            sys.stdout.write('\n' + excuse + '\n')
        else:
            sys.stderr.write('Something went wrong\n')
    except:
        sys.stderr.write('Something went wrong\n')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    args = docopt(__doc__)
    main()