EarthQuake in Japan ...

earthquake.py

"""
Dirty Scraping Around USGS website to be informed of japan quake replica.
"""


from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from urllib import urlopen
from time import sleep

def get_usgs_info():
    return BeautifulSoup(urlopen("http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia_eqs.php"))

QUAKES = []

while True:
    try:
        soup = [BeautifulSoup(str(e)).findAll("td", nowrap="nowrap") for e in get_usgs_info().findAll("tr")]
        quakes = [[a.getText() for a in e] for e in soup]
        quakes.reverse()
        for q in quakes:
            q = [e.replace(" ", "") for e in q]
            if len(q) > 5:
                l1 = q.pop(3).strip()
                l2 = q.pop(3).strip()
                q.append("http://maps.google.fr/maps?geocode=&q=%s+%s"%(l1, l2))
                q.pop(0)
                q[1] = u"Date:" + q[1][0:10] + u" " + q[1][11:]
                q[0] = u"Mag:" + q[0]
                q.pop(2)
            if q not in QUAKES :
                print "--> ", " | ".join(q)
                QUAKES.append(q)
        print "No More Earthquakes \o/  .. New check in 1 minute!"
        sleep(60);
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        with open("/tmp/quakes.txt", "w") as _f:
            for elem in QUAKES:
                _f.write(" | ".join(elem) + '\n')
        break