Get value from different currencies to Venezuelan Bolivar from BCV

get_exchange_bcv.py

"""Get value from different currencies to Venezuelan Bolivar from BCV"""
import requests

from pprint import pprint
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# Most params
url = 'https://www.bcv.org.ve/'
exchanges_pairs_selector = {'class_': 'row recuadrotsmc'}
exchanges_date_selector = {'name': 'span', 'class_': 'date-display-single'}

# URL get call
response = requests.get(url)

# Check for successful response.
if response.status_code == 200:
  # Parse the HTML content using BeautifulSoup.
  soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')

  # Find all elements with the class "item".
  items = soup.find_all(**exchanges_pairs_selector)
  exchanges = []

  exchange_date = (
      soup
      .find(**exchanges_date_selector)
      .attrs['content']
  )

  # Util functions
  clean_string = lambda x: x.text.strip()
  clean_value = lambda x: float(clean_string(x).replace(',', '.'))

  for item in items:
    exchanges.append({
        "exchange_name": clean_string(item.select('span')[0]),
        "exchange_value": clean_value(item.select('strong')[0]),
        "exchange_date": exchange_date
    })

pprint(exchanges)