Continuing with the data extraction from the timeanddate page, the sunrise and sunset information for Venezuela. In this case the webscraping library will be used. To install it, use the pip command:

#pip install webscraping

The previous (broken link) article shows how to locate the information that is needed.

The code is shown below:

#!/usr/bin/env python


#De webscraping se importa download y xpath


from webscraping import download, xpath


#Se define la instancia Download


D = download.Download()

#Se obtiene la informacion de la salida y ocultamiento del

#sol en Venezuela desde la pagina timeanddate.

html = D.get('http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=58')


#Se busca la informacion en la tabla donde se muestra.


for row in xpath.search(html, '//table[@class="spad"]/tbody/tr'):


    #Se busca en la fila el tag /td


    cols = xpath.search(row, '/td')


    #Se muestra la informacion en pantalla


    print 'Amanecer: %s, Atardecer: %s' % (cols[1], cols[2])

The result of running the script is shown below:

Amanecer: 05:47, Atardecer: 17:36

Amanecer: 05:47, Atardecer: 17:36

Amanecer: 05:47, Atardecer: 17:36

Amanecer: 05:48, Atardecer: 17:35

Amanecer: 05:48, Atardecer: 17:35

Amanecer: 05:48, Atardecer: 17:35

Amanecer: 05:48, Atardecer: 17:34

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