Quick and dirty snippet to get the latest ArchLinux - News

archnews.py

#!/usr/bin/python
"""
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                    Version 2, December 2004 

 Copyright (C) 2017 Vinzenz Johann Sinapius <[email protected]> 

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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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