Dilbert.py

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Dilbert.py

This is a little python script to scrape the Dilbert of today and displays it. To install dependencies, use $ pip install requests BeautifulSoup4 Pillow

Dilbert.py

import requests
import urllib.request
import time
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import io
import datetime
import urllib
from PIL import Image

def DilbertURL(dateToFetch):
    formatted_date = '{0}-{1}-{2}'.format(dateToFetch.year, dateToFetch.month, dateToFetch.day)
    todays_page = 'http://dilbert.com/strip/{0}/'.format(formatted_date)
    response = requests.get(todays_page)
    dilbert_page_source = BeautifulSoup(response.text, 'html.parser')
    link = dilbert_page_source.find("img", class_='img-comic')['src']

    return "https:" + str(link)

print(DilbertURL(datetime.datetime.now()))
response = requests.get(DilbertURL(datetime.datetime.now()))
dilbert = Image.open(io.BytesIO(response.content))
dilbert.show()