Timeline.py part 1

Timeline.py part 1

import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import datetime
import re

now = datetime.datetime.now()

# Create a CSV where we'll save our data. See further docs:
# http://propublica.github.com/timeline-setter/#csv
f = open('timeline.csv', 'w')

# Make the header rows. These are based on headers recognized by TimelineSetter.
f.write("date" + "," + "description" + "," + "link" + "," + "html" + "\n")

# URL we will scrape
url = 'http://wcfcourier.com/test/scrape/dunkerton/'
page = urllib2.urlopen(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(page)