Extract the text of an article and read it in the system pager

aread.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
from goose import Goose
import requests
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import errno
requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()

def fetch(url):
	h={"User-Agent":"aread 0.01"}
	try:
		r = requests.get(url,headers=h,verify=False)
		return r.text
	except Exception, e:
		sys.stderr.write("Error: %s" % e.message[0])

def extract(html):
	g = Goose()
	a = g.extract(raw_html=html)
	return a


if __name__ == "__main__":
	if len(sys.argv) <= 1:
		sys.stdout.write("Usage: aread <url>\n")
	else:
		url = sys.argv[1]
		html = fetch(sys.argv[1])
		article = extract(html)

		p = Popen(['less', '-P', article.title], stdin=PIPE)

		try:
			p.stdin.write(article.cleaned_text.encode("utf-8","ignore"))
		except IOError as e:
			if e.errno == errno.EPIPE or e.errno == errno.EINVAL:
				sys.stderr.write("Error writing to pipe.\n")
			else:
				raise
		p.stdin.close()
		p.wait()
		print '%s: %i lines.' % (article.title, len(article.cleaned_text.split("\n")))