Scrape donors from HTML

get-donors.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from subprocess import call
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import json
import os


def get_html():
    if os.path.isfile('richard-family-fund'):
        os.remove('richard-family-fund')
    call(
        "wget https://www.wepay.com/donations/richard-family-fund",
        shell=True
    )
    f = open('richard-family-fund', 'r')
    html = f.read()
    os.remove('richard-family-fund')
    return html


def get_donors():
    output = []
    donors = soup.findAll('li', {"class": "donor"})
    for donor in donors:
        output.append(donor.get_text().strip())
    return output


if __name__ == '__main__':

    soup = BeautifulSoup(get_html())
    output = get_donors()

    f = open('donors.json', 'w+')
    f.write(json.dumps(output))