Bad attempt at getting the european power grid supply frequency from swissgrid.ch. By the time someone reads this, the URL probably doesn't do the trick anymore.

eupgf.py

import urllib.request
import urllib.parse
import ast
import codecs

url = "http://www.swissgrid.ch/mvc.do/applicationFrequencyTimeAjax?tooltipText=+Live+data+(updated+every+30+seconds%2c+capacity+data+delayed+by+20+minutes)&deviationText=Current+grid+time+deviation&frequencyText=Current+frequency&_charset_=UTF-8"

enc = codecs.encode(str.encode(url), "hex")
print(enc)
dec = str(codecs.decode(enc, "hex"))[2:-1]
url2 = '"' + dec + '"'
print(url2)

f = urllib.request.urlopen(url2)
gotten = f.read().decode('utf-8')
topcut = gotten.split("\n")[24]
freq = ast.literal_eval(topcut[36:-10])
print(freq)