Add Python News plugin (.pynews)

honeybot/plugins/pynews.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+[pynews.py]
+Python news checking plugin
+
+[Author]
+Sam Deans
+
+[Github]
+@sdeans0
+
+[About]
+Finds the top five news items on python.org and prints them to the IRC
+
+[Commands]
+>>> .pynews
+returns the top 5 python.org news articles
+"""
+
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+class Plugin:
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+    def run(self, incoming, methods, info, bot_info):
+        try:
+            if info['command'] == 'PRIVMSG' and info['args'][1] == '.pynews':
+                # Get python website
+                response = requests.get('https://www.python.org')
+                html = BeautifulSoup(response.text)
+                # The news section is the first <div class='shrubbery'> in the page
+                # So get all the links in that section
+                news_links = html.find('div',class_='shrubbery').find('ul', class_ = 'menu').find_all('a')
+                # Iterate through the links, send each one to the chat with its
+                # associated title (a.contents[0])
+                for a in news_links:
+                    methods['send'](info['address'],': '.join([a.contents[0],a['href']]))
+        except Exception as e:
+            print('woops plugin', __file__, e)