PyBites.py

PyBites.py

"""Written on iPhone with the Pythonista 3 app 

As a joke for the PyBites guys, I don't see why it wouldn't work anywhere else though. They always 
start off their newsletter annoucements with:

from @PyBites import newsletter

So I turned it into actual code that pulls their feed and opens their latest newsletter in a browser :)
"""
import webbrowser

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests


def newsletter():
    """Parses rss feed
    It pulls out the articles and displays their title, link, and description.
    """
    # link to the newsletter
    url = 'http://us14.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=822043293f280259d4b8d2a3e&id=ac7e2eb9ef'

    # retrieve page and extract content
    r = requests.get(url)
    html = r.text

    # turn into soup object
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
    article = soup.find('li', class_='campaign').a['href']

    # open up the latest one
    webbrowser.open(article)

newsletter()