McMurdo

mcmurdo.py

from urllib import urlopen
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import time
import os
c = 1;
while os.path.exists(os.path.join('images', str(c) + '.jpg')):
  c = c + 1
while True:
  oldTime = time.time()
  html = urlopen("http://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/mcmwebcam.cfm").read()
  imgUrl = BeautifulSoup(html).findAll('div', id='camImageBlock', limit=1)[0].findAll('img', limit=1)[0]['src']
  imgData = urlopen('http://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/' + imgUrl).read()
  fp = open('images/%s.jpg' % str(c), 'wb')
  fp.write(imgData)
  fp.close()
  print 'Saved %s.jpg' % str(c)
  print 'Waiting %.4fs' % float((oldTime + 9) - time.time())
  while(time.time() < oldTime + 9):
    time.sleep(0.01)
  c = c + 1