convert medium blog post into markdown

markdownify.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import html2text
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

class ManualError(Exception):
    def __init__(self, args):
        self.args = args

    def display(self):
        print(''.join(self.args))

def markdownify(url):
    response = requests.get(url)
    try:
        if response.status_code != 200:
            raise ManualError("not good :/")
        else:
            soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
            root = soup.find("div", {'class' : 'section-content'})
            mark = html2text.html2text(root.prettify())
            return mark

    except ManualError as merr:
        merr.display()
        return None

def main():
    url = "https://medium.com/@NIshanPantha/tetris-effect-beats-rhythms-and-music-4792bb1cb18#.rghv7b4q5"
    url1 = "https://medium.com/@NIshanPantha/tetris-effect-beats-rhythms-and-music"
    mark = markdownify(url)
    if mark:
        with open("test.md", "w") as fp:
            fp.write(mark)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()