Betfair scrape try

Betfair scrape try code

# scrape.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import urllib
from models import Greeting
from models import Betfair

def scrapeBetfair():
    url = "https://www.betfair.com/exchange/politics/market?id=924.8325569&exp=e"
    htmlcode = BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(url).read(), "html.parser")
    # finds the last <script> content, which is what we need
    # the encode() changes unicode to str
    roughchunk = htmlcode.find_all("script")[-1].get_text().encode('utf-8')
    # targetstring is everything before 'Ted Cruz'
    targetstring = roughchunk.split("Ted Cruz")[0]
    #return targetstring
    betfair = Betfair()
    betfair.datatext = targetstring
    betfair.save()

scrapeBetfair()