Quick and dirty snippet to get the latest ArchLinux - News
| #!/usr/bin/python | |
| """ | |
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| Version 2, December 2004 | |
| Copyright (C) 2017 Vinzenz Johann Sinapius <vinzenz.sinapius@gmail.com> | |
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| """ | |
| import requests | |
| from lxml import html | |
| SITE = "https://www.archlinux.org/news/" | |
| TBODY_XPATH = "/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/table/tbody" | |
| NEWS_COUNT = 4 | |
| if __name__ == "__main__": | |
| page = requests.get(SITE) | |
| tree = html.fromstring(page.content) | |
| table = tree.xpath(TBODY_XPATH)[0] | |
| count = 0 | |
| for element in table.getchildren(): | |
| tds = element.getchildren() | |
| timestamp = tds[0].text | |
| title = tds[1].getchildren()[0].text.strip() | |
| print("%s\t%s" % (timestamp, title)) | |
| count += 1 | |
| if count >= NEWS_COUNT: | |
| break |
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