riddles.py

# Imports
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import random

# The concept of webscraping is used here.
# From the URL mentioned below, riddles are scraped and stored.
# A random riddles is retrieved


def get_riddles():
    url = "https://www.skiptomylou.org/kids-jokes/"
    response = requests.get(url)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
    riddles = []

    for i in (soup.find('main', attrs={"class": "content"}).find('div', attrs={"class": "entry-content"}).find_all('p')):
        if i != None:
            riddles.append(str(i.text).replace('A', '\b').replace('Q', '').strip(
                ':').replace('\xa0', '').replace(':', '').replace('\x08', ''))

    actualridd = []
    for i in (riddles[5:-7]):

        p = (i.strip().strip('.').split('? '))
        try:
            actualridd.append(p[0] + '?' + p[1])
        except:
            actualridd.append(p[0])
    return(random.choice(actualridd))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(get_riddles())