Scrape fundraising progress from GoFundMe

gofundme.py

# do:
# pip install beautifulsoup4 requests
# then this:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# this cookie triggers / forces its new layout (as of July 1 2016)
headers = {
    'Cookie': 'flow=%7B%22DONATION%22%3A%22d_ad_v2a%22%7D'
}

req = requests.get('https://www.gofundme.com/sendculvertophilly', headers=headers) 
soup = BeautifulSoup(req.text)
raised, goal = soup.select('h2')[0].text.strip('\n').rstrip(' goal').replace('$', '').replace(',', '').split(' of ')

print raised
print goal