Daily tao in your terminal

tao.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# pip install requests rich beautifulsoup4
import sys

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from rich.console import Console
from rich.panel import Panel

URL = "https://dailytao.org/"
console = Console()


def fetch_tao_content():
    response = requests.get(URL)
    response.raise_for_status()

    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser")

    # Get the poem content
    poem_elements = []

    fineprint_content = ""
    for current_element in soup.find("p"):
        if current_element.name == "div":
            fineprint_content = current_element.text
            break
        if current_element.name == "br":
            continue
        poem_elements.append(current_element.text.strip())

    poem_content = "\n".join(poem_elements)
    return poem_content, fineprint_content


def display_with_rich(poem_content, fineprint_content):
    formatted_content = f"{poem_content}\n\n[italic white]{fineprint_content}[/italic white]"
    poem_panel = Panel(formatted_content, title="Daily Tao", border_style="green")
    console.print(poem_panel)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    poem_content, fineprint_content = fetch_tao_content()
    if len(sys.argv) > 1 and sys.argv[-1] == '--raw':
        print(poem_content)
    else:
        display_with_rich(poem_content, fineprint_content)