Ljodafundur

poem.py

import requests
import re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import random


URL = "http://www.ljod.is/index.php/ljod/poem_collection/author"

page = requests.get(URL)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
authors = []
for link in [a["href"] for a in soup.find_all("a")]:
    if re.search("view_poet", link):
        authors.append(link)

author_page = requests.get(random.choice(authors))
soup = BeautifulSoup(author_page.content, "html.parser")
poems = []
for link in [a["href"] for a in soup.find_all("a")]:
    if re.search("view_poem", link):
        poems.append(link)

ljoda_page = requests.get(random.choice(poems))
soup = BeautifulSoup(ljoda_page.content, "html.parser")
ljodid = soup.find("span", class_="poem")

print(ljodid.text.strip())