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rnegron/metacritic_top_100_games.py

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Short Python script for parsing, numbering and printing the top 100 video games according to metacritic.com
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metacritic_top_100_games.py
import requests, re
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
META_URL = 'http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/score/metascore/all/all/filtered?sort=des'
HEADERS = {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
r = requests.get(META_URL, headers=HEADERS)
soup = BS(r.text, 'html.parser')
for count, item in enumerate(soup.find_all('div', class_='product_item product_title'), 1):
print('{} {}'.format(count, re.sub(r'\(.*\)', '', item.a.string).strip()))
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