notebook.community

Edit and run



In [1]:

    
import requests



In [2]:

    
url = "https://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/EF_METADATA_HTML.ef_metadata_page?p_column_name=LATITUDE&p_table_name=sems_active_sites&p_topic=sems"



In [3]:

    
data = requests.get(url).text
desc_start = data.find("Description:")
desc_end = data[desc_start:].find("\n")



In [4]:

    
description = data[desc_start+17:desc_start+desc_end]

description









    Out[4]:





'The measure of the angular distance on a meridian north or south of the equator.'



In [ ]:



In [5]:

    
def desc_unwrapper(url):
    data = requests.get(url).text
    desc_start = data.find("Description:")
    desc_end = data[desc_start:].find("\n")
    
    description = data[desc_start+17:desc_start+desc_end]
    
    return description