RF Thumbnail Parser

rf_thumbnail_parser.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import re

page = requests.get('https://www.rentaphoto.com/rentaphototv')
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, 'html.parser')

print page.status_code
columns = soup.findAll('a', href = re.compile('vimeo.com/\d'''))

for i in range (0, columns.__len__()):
    current = str(columns[i])[27:].split('"')[0]
    print columns[i]

    xml = requests.get('http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/' + current + '.xml')
    xmlsoup = BeautifulSoup(xml.text, 'xml')
    thumblinks = xmlsoup.findAll('thumbnail_large')
    print thumblinks


    print "\n"

This simple script scrapes thumbnails for vimeo videos using bs4 and requests.