Hacker News upvoted scrap

hn-upvoted-scrap.py

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
creds = {'acct': 'YOUR_ACCOUNT', 'pw': 'YOUR_PASSWORD'}
sess = requests.Session()
resp = sess.post('https://news.ycombinator.com/login', creds)
assert resp.status_code == 200
cnt = 0
items = []
nextUrl = f"https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id={creds['acct']}"
while True:
    lnkMore = None
    lastTitle = None
    lastLink = None
    lastPoints = None
    lastComments = None
    resp = sess.get(nextUrl)
    nextUrl = None
    dom = BeautifulSoup(resp.content, 'html.parser')
    tbl = dom.findAll("table", attrs={'class': 'itemlist'})
    for tr in tbl[0].findAll('tr'):
        if tr.has_attr('class') and tr['class'][0] == 'athing':
            a = tr.select('td[class="title"] a[class="storylink"]')[0]
            lastTitle = a.get_text()
            lastLink = a['href']
        elif tr.has_attr('class') and tr['class'][0] == 'spacer':
            # Time to append to array
            items.append({'title': lastTitle, 'url': lastLink, 'points': lastPoints, 'comments': lastComments})
            lastTitle = None
            lastLink = None
            lastPoints = None
            lastComments = None
            cnt += 1
        elif not tr.has_attr('class'):
            # More info
            sel = tr.select('span[class="score"]')
            try:
                lastPoints = int(sel[0].get_text().split(' ')[0])
            except:
                lastPoints = None
            for a in tr.find_all('a'):
                if 'comment' in a.get_text():
                    try: 
                        lastComments = int(a.get_text().split('\xa0')[0])
                    except:
                        lastComments = None
            if len(tr.select('a[class="morelink"]')) > 0:
                nextUrl = 'https://news.ycombinator.com/' + tr.select('a[class="morelink"]')[0]['href']
    if nextUrl is None:
        break
print(f'Total upvoted links: {cnt}')