search5.py

   1 #! /usr/bin/python3
   2 # search5.py-search by command line and open 5 tabs
   3
   4 import requests,sys,webbrowser,bs4
   5 print('Searching...')
   6 res=requests.get('https://pypi.org/search?q='+ ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))
   7 res.raise_for_status()
   8
   9 # Retrieve top search result links
  10 soup=bs4.BeautifulSoup(res.text,'lxml')
  11 # Open a browser tab for each result
  12 linkElems=soup.select('.package-snippet')
  13 numOpen=min(5,len(linkElems))
  14 for i in range(numOpen):
  15     urlToOpen='https://pypi.org/search?q='+linkElems[i].get('href')
  16     print('Opening',urlToOpen)
  17     webbrowser.open(urlToOpen)