How can I get frequently updated .php text from a website in Python using BeautifulSoup4?

I would like create an automatic script to download a .php textfile from a webpage which is frequently updated. My program uses requests to get the webpage.

The code:

import os, pathlib, subprocess,requests, time, sys        url = 'http://metar.vatsim.net/metar.php?id=all'    current_dir = pathlib.Path(__file__).parent  os.chdir(current_dir)          icao = sys.argv[1]  fp = requests.get(url)  mybytes = fp.read()    mystr = mybytes.decode("utf8")  fp.close()    dict = {}    fls = str.splitlines(mystr)  for x in range(len(fls)):      cur = str.split(fls[x])      dict[cur[0]] = " ".join(cur)        try:      print(dict[icao])  except:      print('INCORRECT FORMAT OR AIRPORT ID\n')  

When I try to read fp, it shows the err:

mybytes = fp.read()  AttributeError: 'Response' object has no attribute 'read'  

Is there a better way to solve this, I am kind of stuck.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67326926/how-can-i-get-frequently-updated-php-text-from-a-website-in-python-using-beauti April 30, 2021 at 09:06AM