Get WKT from either epsg.io OR spatialreference.org

getWKT.py

def getWKTio(epsg) :
    import urllib
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
    html = 'http://epsg.io/{}'.format(epsg)    
    r  = urllib.urlopen(html)
    data = r.read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(data, "html")
    for tag in soup.find_all('pre'):
        if tag.get('id') == 's_esriwkt_text':
            return tag.contents

getWKTio(4326)            
            
def getPRJwkt(epsg):
   """
   Grab an WKT version of an EPSG code
   usage getPRJwkt(4326)

   This makes use of links like 
   http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4326/prettywkt/
   """
   import urllib
   sr = "http://spatialreference.org"
   f=urllib.urlopen(sr + "/ref/epsg/{0}/prettywkt/".format(epsg))
   return (f.read())
   
getPRJwkt(5070)