Find available Soundcloud names

find_soundcloud_names.py

import os, requests, time, csv
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

delay_seconds = 0.2
url_to_check = "https://soundcloud.com"
error_title_to_check = "Something went wrong on SoundCloud"
csv_filename = "results.csv"
start_sequence = "/wla"

def get_names(delay, base_url, error_title, csv_filename, start_sequence):
    successful_requests = 0

    if not os.path.isfile(csv_filename):
        with open(csv_filename, 'w', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as csv_file:
            csv_writer = csv.writer(csv_file)
            csv_writer.writerow(['URL', 'Status Code', 'Title', 'Content'])

    with open(csv_filename, 'a', newline='', encoding='utf-8') as csv_file:
        csv_writer = csv.writer(csv_file)

        while True:
            url_to_check = base_url + start_sequence
            response = requests.get(url_to_check)

            csv_writer.writerow([url_to_check, response.status_code, get_page_title(response.content)])
            csv_file.flush()

            if not error_title and response.status_code == 404:
                return start_sequence[1:], successful_requests

            if check_title(response.content, error_title):
                return start_sequence[1:], successful_requests

            successful_requests += 1
            time.sleep(delay)

            start_sequence = increment_string(start_sequence)

            print(successful_requests, start_sequence, response.status_code)

def check_title(html_content, error_title):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')
    title_tag = soup.find('title')
    
    if title_tag and error_title.lower() in title_tag.text.lower():
        return True
    return False

def increment_string(s):
    last_char = s[-1]
    if last_char == 'z':
        return increment_string(s[:-1]) + 'a'
    elif last_char == '9':
        return increment_string(s[:-1]) + 'a'
    else:
        return s[:-1] + chr(ord(last_char) + 1)

def get_page_title(html_content):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser')
    title_tag = soup.find('title')
    return title_tag.text if title_tag else ''


result, total_requests = get_names(delay_seconds, url_to_check, error_title_to_check, csv_filename, start_sequence)
print(f"Error String: {result}, Total Requests: {total_requests}")