TIC-80 game scraper

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import argparse
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
                    prog='TIC Scraper',
                    description='Scrape the top games from tic80.com')
    parser.add_argument('-p', '--pages', default=30, type=int, dest='pages', help='The number of pages to scrape.')
    parser.add_argument('-c', '--category', default=0, type=int, dest='category', help='The category in the URL bar at tic80.com (defaults to games)')
    args = parser.parse_args()

    pages = []
    game_urls = []
    scraped_carts = []
    for i in range(0, args.pages):
        pages.append(f'https://tic80.com/play?cat={args.category}&sort=2&page={i}')

    print("Scraping game list...")
    for page in pages:
        print(f'    Scraping {page}')
        try:
            r = requests.get(page)
        except:
            r = requests.get(page)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html5lib')
        game_pages = soup.find_all('div', attrs = {'class':'thumbnail'})
        for game_page in game_pages:
            game_url_ending = game_page.a['href']
            game_urls.append(f'https://tic80.com{game_url_ending}')

    print("Scraping game data...")
    for idx, game_url in enumerate(game_urls, start=1):
        print(f'    Scraping {game_url} ({idx}/{len(game_urls)})...')
        cart = {}
        try:
            r = requests.get(game_url)
        except:
            r = requests.get(game_url)
        soup = BeautifulSoup(r.content, 'html.parser')
        # Scrape game carts
        for link in soup.find_all('a'):
            if link.has_attr('href'):
                if link['href'].endswith('.tic'):
                    if link['href'].startswith('http'):
                        cart['url'] = link["href"]
                    else:
                        cart['url'] = f'https://tic80.com{link["href"]}'
        # Scrape game covers
        cart_img = soup.find('meta', attrs={'property':'og:image'})
        cart['cover'] = cart_img['content']
        # Add to total list
        scraped_carts.append(cart)

    print(scraped_carts)

    for idx, cart in enumerate(scraped_carts, start=1):
        game_name = cart['url'].split('/')[-1].split('.')[0]
        print(f'Downloading {game_name} ({idx}/{len(scraped_carts)})...')
        try:
            response = requests.get(cart['url'])
        except:
            response = requests.get(cart['url'])
        with open(f'Carts/{game_name}.tic', mode='wb') as file:
            file.write(response.content)
        try:
            response = requests.get(cart['cover'])
        except:
            response = requests.get(cart['cover'])
        with open(f'Imgs/{game_name}.gif', mode='wb') as file:
            file.write(response.content)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()