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Scrape token-id from periscope.com with python (lxml and request)
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| from lxml import html | |
| import requests | |
| #scrape periscope desktop page; meta tag token-id content is empty when not streaming | |
| page = requests.get('https://www.periscope.tv/<replace username>') | |
| tree = html.fromstring(page.content) | |
| air_status = tree.xpath('//*[@id="token-id"]/@content') |
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