ROBOT READS YOU A WEB FRAGMENT

gistfile1.txt

import subprocess
import sys

import lxml.html
import requests


if __name__ == '__main__':
    url, selector = sys.argv[-2:]
    response = requests.get(url)
    doc = lxml.html.fromstring(response.content)
    text = []
    for elm in doc.cssselect(selector):
        text.append(elm.text_content().encode('utf-8'))
    try:
        subprocess.call(['say', '. '.join(text)])
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass

Save it as wwwblab.py and then:

python wwwblab.py "http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/wor/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=hp_t1" ".cnn_strycntntlft p"