Extracting Stripe event types from the documents

gistfile1.py

import requests
from StringIO import StringIO
from lxml.html import parse
from collections import defaultdict
import re

# the list of Stripe events in the documentation and is not currently available from the API itself
url = "https://stripe.com/docs/api#event_types"
r = requests.get(url)
doc = parse(StringIO(r.content)).getroot()

ev_dts = doc.cssselect('#event_types + div')[0].findall('.//dt')
event_types = [ev_dt.text_content() for ev_dt in ev_dts]

print event_types

resource_actions = [(event_type, None) if re.match("^(.+)\.([^\.]*)$", event_type) is None else re.match("^(.+)\.([^\.]*)$", event_type).groups() for event_type in event_types]

print resource_actions

ra = defaultdict(set)
for (r,a) in resource_actions:
    ra[r].add(a)
    
print ra