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#!/home/mstucka/bin/python | |
# New Perl-esque version! | |
#!/home/mstucka/bin/python | |
#from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
#import requests | |
#full_url = 'http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=32.8406946&lon=-83.6324022&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=Macon%2C%20GA%2C%20USA#.UfA_Q23fLTr' | |
#ul = (BeautifulSoup(requests.get(full_url).text)).find_all("ul", class_="point-forecast-7-day") | |
#li = str(ul[0].find_all('li')[0]) | |
#print li[(li.rfind("/span")+6):(li.rfind("/li")-1)].strip() | |
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
import requests | |
full_url = 'http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=32.8406946&lon=-83.6324022&site=all&smap=1&searchresult=Macon%2C%20GA%2C%20USA#.UfA_Q23fLTr' | |
r = requests.get(full_url) | |
html = r.text | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(html) | |
ul = soup.find_all("ul", class_="point-forecast-7-day") | |
li = str(ul[0].find_all('li')[0]) | |
listart = li.rfind("/span") + 6 | |
liend= li.rfind("/li") -1 | |
forecast=li[listart:liend].strip() | |
print forecast | |
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