Fetch UK weather extremes from the Met Office website

met_office.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Fetch UK weather extremes from the Met Office website')
parser.add_argument('--print-headers', dest='print_headers', action='store_true', help='Print CSV column headers')
args = parser.parse_args()

page = requests.get("https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation")
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, 'html.parser')

data = {}
table = soup.select_one(".table.extremes")
for row in table.select_one("tbody").select("tr"):
    parsed = [entry.text.strip() for entry in row.select("td")]
    data[f"{parsed[0]} - Location"] = parsed[1]
    value = parsed[2].split("\xa0")
    data[f"{parsed[0]} - Value ({value[1]})"] = value[0]

if args.print_headers:
    print(",".join(data.keys()))

print(",".join(data.values()))