Scrape stock price from google finance

scrape_stock.py

# Python 3.4

import urllib
import bs4

def get_stock_price(name):
    url = "https://www.google.com/finance"
    req = urllib.request.Request(url)
    url_full = url + "?" + urllib.parse.urlencode({"q": name})
    req = urllib.request.Request(url_full)
    resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
    data = resp.read()
    bs = bs4.BeautifulSoup(data)
    div_price = bs.find(attrs={"id": "price-panel"})
    span_price = div_price.find(attrs={"class": "pr"})
    return float(span_price.text.strip())

print(get_stock_price("GOOG"))