Get most recent US presidential election predictions from FiveThirtyEight.com

538.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def main():
    url = 'http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/mobile-bar.html'
    r = requests.get(url)

    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
    return [(p.contents[0], p.contents[1].text)
        for p in soup.find_all('p', class_ = 'value-wrap')]

if __name__ == '__main__':
    for candidate, probability in main():
        print ("%s\t%s" % (candidate, probability))