A python script to scrape the status metrics from https://status.github.com/

github_status.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# make a request for the data
r = requests.get('https://status.github.com/')

# convert the response text to soup
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "lxml")

# get all the divs with the "graph" class
for graph in soup.find_all("div", {"class":"graph"}):

    # from the graph div, get all the divs with the "data" class
    for data in graph("div", {"class":"data"}):

        # from the data div, grab the h2 and span
        h2   = data("h2")[0]
        span = data("span")[0]

        # print the report for this metric
        print "%-40s %s" % (h2.string, span.string)