Web scraping events of a VK group.

vk_events_scraping.py

import bs4
from requests import Session

vk_url = 'http://vk.com'

def get_events_urls(group_id, oid):
    group_url = ''.join([vk_url, '/', group_id])
    session = Session()
    session.head(group_url)
    response = session.post(
        url='http://vk.com/al_groups.php',
        data={
            'act': 'show_events',
            'al': '1',
            'oid': oid
        },
        headers={
            'Referer': group_url
        }
    )
    soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(response.text[59:-46])
    urls = [a.attrs.get('href') for a in soup.select('.name a[href]')]
    return urls

def ltrim_event_url(event_url):
    if event_url.startswith('/event'):
        return event_url[6:]
    return event_url[1:]

def get_events_ids(events_urls):
    return [ltrim_event_url(event_url) for event_url in events_urls]

events_urls = get_events_urls('chadaovyatka', '-5907489')
events_ids = get_events_ids(events_urls)