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Download premiership fixtures from BBC

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  1. import os
  2. import urllib2
  3. import sys
  4. from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
  5.  
  6. bbcurl = "http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/fixtures/default.stm"
  7.  
  8. doc = urllib2.urlopen(bbcurl).read()
  9. soup = BeautifulSoup(doc)
  10. mvbs = soup.findAll('div', { 'class' : 'mvb' })
  11.  
  12. for mvb in mvbs:
  13.     if mvb.b:
  14.         date = mvb.b.contents
  15.     else:
  16.         mvb = mvb.findNext('span')
  17.         home = mvb.a.contents
  18.         mvb = mvb.findNext('span')
  19.         away = str(mvb.a.contents)
  20.  
  21.         print "DATE %s %s vs %s" % (date, home, away)

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