env_canada_alerts.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python3.5

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import json

URL="https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?qc67"
raw_html = requests.get(URL).text
data = BeautifulSoup(raw_html, 'html.parser')
j=dict()
date="None"
details="No warnings in effect"
raw_title=data.select('.col-xs-12:nth-of-type(1) p:nth-of-type(1)')[0]
title=str(raw_title).split(">")[5].split("<")[0][:-5]
date = str(raw_title).split(">")[2].split("<")[0]
if "No Alerts in effect" in str(raw_title):
        title = "No alerts in effect"
        details = "No alerts in effect"
else:
        try:
                details = data.select('.col-xs-12:nth-of-type(1) p:nth-of-type(2)')[0].text
        except:
                print("Unable to get details for alert")

j["date"] = date
j["details"] = details
j["title"] = title
print(json.dumps(j))