startercorpmembercount.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Sat Aug 20 21:19:56 2016

@author: ShaeTads
@licence: MIT
"""
import urllib
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

#Eve Online xml API
base_url      = 'https://api.eveonline.com'
corps_path    = '/corp/CorporationSheet.xml.aspx'
argument      = 'corporationID='

starter_corps = [
                #Gallente        
                {'name': 'Center for Advanced Studies', 'id': 1000169},
                {'name': 'Federal Navy Academy', 'id': 1000168},
                {'name': 'University of Caille', 'id': 1000115},
                #Caldari
                {'name': 'School of Applied Knowledge', 'id': 1000044},
                {'name': 'Science and Trade Institute', 'id': 1000045},
                {'name': 'State Was Academy', 'id': 1000167},
                #Amarr
                {'name': 'Hedion University', 'id': 1000165},
                {'name': 'Imperial Academy', 'id': 1000166},
                {'name': 'Royal Amarr Institute', 'id': 1000077},
                #Minmatar
                {'name': 'Pator Tech School', 'id': 1000172},
                {'name': 'Republic Military School', 'id': 1000170},
                {'name': 'Republic University', 'id': 1000171}
                ]

#Change this to member_count = [] if uncommenting the http request loop below
member_count  = [1048548, 1384848, 680336, 752271, 660199, 1629420, 378692, 
                 752366, 482459, 414969, 848182, 413265]

#for corp in starter_corps:
#    url = base_url + corps_path + '?' + argument + str(corp['id'])
#    print(url)
#    response = urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()
#    soup = BeautifulSoup(response, 'lxml')
#    count = soup.find('membercount')
#    member_count.append(int(count.text))

print('\nCharacters per starter corporation:\n')
print('{:30s}{:>20s}'.format('Corporation Name', 'Member Count'))
print('-'*50)
for i, count in enumerate(member_count):
    print('{:30s}{:20,d}'.format(starter_corps[i]['name'], count))
print('-'*50)
print('{:>30s}{:20,d}'.format('Total', sum(member_count)))