Web Scraping Example

#This example was written for an internal webpage which displays a password which is randomly generated each day
#This script will scrape the page and only display the password

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

#URL which contains the randomly generated password
url = 'REDACTED_URL'

print (f"Attempting to reach {url}\n")

try:
#We perform a GET request on the URL
    r = requests.get(url)


#We parse the HTML page's content via BeautifulSoup
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html.parser')


#We look for the div which contains the password placeholder
    pw_ph = soup.find('div', attrs={'id': 'Content'})


#We strip the text from the password placeholder div
    pw= pw_ph.text.strip()
    
    
#We print the password
    print (f"Service is up!")
    print (f"{pw}")
    
    
except:
    print (f"Something went wrong accessing {url}!")