Check if Kaggle has launched a competition today

kaggle.py

# Check if Kaggle has launched a competition today.
# 
# Ported to Python 2 from https://github.com/BraunPhilipp/snippets/blob/master/kaggle.py

from urllib2 import urlopen
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import time
import random
import string
import datetime

page = urlopen("https://www.kaggle.com/competitions", timeout=5)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page, "html.parser")

competitions = soup.find('div', id='competitions-recent')
competitions = competitions.find_all('li')

new_competitions = []

for competition in competitions:
    try:
        url = 'https://www.kaggle.com'+str(competition.find('a', class_='comp-link')['href'])
        page = urlopen(url, timeout=5)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(page, "html.parser")
        start = ' '.join(soup.find("div", id='comp-header-stats-start').text.split())
        start = datetime.datetime.strptime(start, "%a %d %b %Y")
        now = datetime.datetime.now()
        if ( start.date() == now.date() ):
            title = soup.find('h1').find('a').text
            content = soup.find('div', class_='comp-content-inside')
            new_competitions.append(url)
    except:
        pass

if (len(new_competitions) == 0):
    print("NO NEW COMPETITIONS FOUND!")
else:
    print("\n".join(new_competitions))