Wikipedia から今日が何の日かを抽出

nannohi.py

import random
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from datetime import date

today = date.today()

url = 'https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/{}月{}日'.format(today.month, today.day)

events = []

r = requests.get(url)

soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')

dekigoto = soup.select('span[id="できごと"]')

elm = dekigoto[0]

# できごとの後にでてくる最初の <ul> まで進める
while True:
    if elm.name == "ul":
        break
    elm = elm.next_element

# <ul> 内の <li> のテキストをリストに入れる
for li in elm.find_all("li"):
    events.append(li.text)

max = len(events)

n = 3 if len(events) >= 3 else len(events)

for event in sorted(random.sample(events, n)):
    print(event)