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title: "salatime"
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summary: "Basic terminal script to print out daily prayer times for Birmingham, AL."
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date: "2019-05-09"
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author: "Abdullah Tarawneh"
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tags: ["python", "web scraping", "scraping", "beautifulsoup", "salat", "prayer", "time"]
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category: "Code"
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cover: "/images/cover/salatime.jpg"
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## The problem
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While working in a terminal environment, I would like to know what the current active prayer is, how much time I have left to pray, time to next prayer, and other such information.
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## The research
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The Birmingham Islamic Society provides tables of prayer times by month. This table can be scraped with Python Requests, then parsed with BeautifulSoup.
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## The solution
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Source code is available at https://github.com/trwnh/salatime
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Pseudocode is as follows:
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1. Get the current month, day, hour, and minute.
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2. Get the page for the current month.
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3. Get the times table out of this page.
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4. Parse this table for a list of prayer times.
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5. Parse this list for the current day's prayer times.
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6. Calculate and print information. |