Read Daily Bread easier with python
I live in Malaysia which is GMT+8.
When I open the Daily Bread in the morning, it shows me the previous day’s devotion because Malaysia’s time zone is ahead of Daily Bread’s. However, Daily Bread allows me to read ‘ahead’ by clicking on any date on a calendar on the website.
Well, I don’t like to do anything manual repeatedly if I can help it and I wrote the script below.
import os
import datetime
import webbrowser
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
def daily_bread(d):
year = d.year
month = d.month
day = d.day
# refer http://my.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php for sprintf format
url = 'http://www.rbc.org/devotionals/our-daily-bread/%04d/%02d/%02d/devotion.aspx' % (year, month, day)
webbrowser.open(url)
open_bible(url)
def open_bible(daily_page_url):
page = urllib2.urlopen(daily_page_url)
s = BeautifulSoup(page)
bible_a = s.find('a', id = 'ctl00_cphPrimary_hlGatewayVerse')
url = bible_a['href']
webbrowser.open(url)
today = datetime.date.today()
daily_bread(today)
if today.weekday() == 5: # Saturday
tomorrow = today + datetime.timedelta(1)
daily_bread(tomorrow)
It will open the Daily Bread devotion for the correct day (the same day as my computer time).
As a bonus, it will also open the day’s Bible verse. (You will need to easy_install BeautifulSoup first).
On Saturdays, I read the Sunday’s devotion too because I go to church on Sunday. The script opens 2 days’ reading on Saturday.
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