gistfile1.py

import urllib2
import json
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


def get_station_info(index, api_key):

    try:
        url = "http://api.npr.org/v2/stations/org/{0}?apiKey={1}".format(index, api_key)
        content = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
    except Exception, ex:
        print "ERROR: {0}".format(ex)
        content = None
    return content

def get_all_stations_info(start, end, api_key):

    stations = []
    for i in range(start, end+1):
        stations.append(get_station_info(i, api_key))

    return stations

if __name__ == '__main__':

    print "Starting ..."

    stations = get_all_stations_info(1, 896, 'mah_super_duper_key')

    with open('stations.json', 'w') as f:
        f.write(json.dumps(stations))

    print "Done!"