Parse Drudge Report Headline

pdrudge

# FOR USE WITH TEXTBAR ( www.richsomerfield.com ) OR BIT BAR (https://github.com/matryer/bitbar)
# /usr/local/bin/python /./Users/<u>/drudge.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from lxml import etree

headline = "..."

try:
    with requests.Session() as session:
        session.headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 Safari/537.36'}
        response = session.get('http://www.drudgereport.com')
        html = response.text
        soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
        section = soup.find("font", size="+7")
        headline = section.text
except Exception as err:
    print(err)

try:
    print(headline)
except:
    pass