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September 6, 2018 21:23
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A simple little Python notification system that looks for Ted Cruz polling data on Google. If the data exists, then the script notifies me via text message
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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
from six.moves import urllib | |
from selenium import webdriver | |
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options | |
import requests | |
from selenium import webdriver | |
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException | |
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys | |
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import Select | |
def SendText(yourname, message, recipientPhoneNumber): | |
try: | |
driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'/usr/local/bin/geckodriver') | |
driver.get("http://www.24sms.net/") | |
driver.find_element_by_name('SendFrom').send_keys(str(name)) | |
driver.find_element_by_name('SendTo').send_keys(str(recipientPhoneNumber)) | |
driver.find_element_by_name("Msg").send_keys(str(message)) | |
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='submit']").click() | |
driver.close() | |
driver.quit() | |
return True | |
except: | |
return False | |
def checkForPoll(): | |
foxnewslist = [] | |
search = 'https://www.google.com/search?biw=1280&bih=726&tbm=nws&ei=UJiRW_XwC8nSsAWit4G4Ag&q=ted+cruz&oq=ted+cruz&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l10.39796.40467.0.40677.6.6.0.0.0.0.106.413.5j1.6.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.6.412....0.ZEuDeWIsHw8' | |
r = requests.get(search) | |
data = r.text | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, 'lxml') | |
for i in soup: | |
if "poll" in soup: | |
SendText("Ted Cruz Poll Finder", "A new Ted Cruz poll has been found.", "[MY PHONE NUMBER]") | |
else: | |
print "No poll found." | |
print str(i) | |
checkForPoll() |
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