It's close
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
url = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi"
url_get = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(url_get.content, 'html.parser')
print(soup.find('strong').text)Output:
99992
Who will be 100,000?
There should be a prize!
like:
All the bits you can use for the rest of your life
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import schedule
import datetime, time
def PyPi_check():
url = "https://pypi.python.org/pypi"
url_get = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(url_get.content, 'html.parser')
count = soup.find('strong').text
print(count)
if int(count) == 100000:
with open('pypi.txt', 'w') as f:
f.write(f'PyPi reached 100000 packages at: {datetime.datetime.now()}')
return schedule.CancelJob
schedule.every(.1).minutes.do(PyPi_check)
while True:
schedule.run_pending()
time.sleep(1)Output:
PyPi reached 100000 packages at: 2017-03-05 00:58:33.121786