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Quick and dirty snippet to get the latest ArchLinux - News
#!/usr/bin/python
"""
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2017 Vinzenz Johann Sinapius <vinzenz.sinapius@gmail.com>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
"""
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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vnznznz commented Nov 16, 2017

added license

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