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RF Thumbnail Parser
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rf_thumbnail_parser.py
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
import re
page = requests.get('https://www.rentaphoto.com/rentaphototv')
soup = BeautifulSoup(page.text, 'html.parser')
print page.status_code
columns = soup.findAll('a', href = re.compile('vimeo.com/\d'''))
for i in range (0, columns.__len__()):
current = str(columns[i])[27:].split('"')[0]
print columns[i]
xml = requests.get('http://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/' + current + '.xml')
xmlsoup = BeautifulSoup(xml.text, 'xml')
thumblinks = xmlsoup.findAll('thumbnail_large')
print thumblinks
print "\n"
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This simple script scrapes thumbnails for vimeo videos using bs4 and requests.

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