Url scrape and insert in mongodb

pymongo.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from pymongo import MongoClient

import urllib2
import re
import datetime

# DB connection
client = MongoClient()
db = client.test
collection = db.hackernews

# Page parsing
html_page = urllib2.urlopen("https://news.ycombinator.com/")
soup = BeautifulSoup(html_page)
titles = soup.select('td.title a')

collection.drop()
for link in titles:  
  collection.insert({
    "title" : link.string,
    "link" : link.get('href'),
    "date" : datetime.datetime.utcnow()
  })

print collection.count(), 'Objects inserted'