Hacker New Top 10

Awesome-Scripts/hackernews.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+# get the front page from hacker news
+response = requests.request("GET", "https://news.ycombinator.com/")
+
+# convert the response to soup
+soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "lxml")
+
+# count the things that get processed
+count = 0
+
+# process all of the things! :D
+for things in soup("tr", { "class" : "athing" }):
+    # get at the rank of each thing
+    for rank in things("span", { "class" : "rank" }):
+        print( rank.text, end=' ' )
+
+    # get the title of each thing
+    for title in things("a", { "class" : "storylink" }):
+        print( title.text )
+        print( title['href'] )
+        print( " " )
+
+    count = count + 1
+
+    if count == 10: break