import urllib2
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import time
def getData():
  # specify the url
  web = 'file:///Users/apc/Desktop/Scoreboard/scoreboard.html'
  #query the website and return the html to the variable 'page'
  page = urllib2.urlopen(web)
  # parse the html using beautiful soup and store in variable 'soup'
  soup = BeautifulSoup(page,'html.parser')
  # get the index
  single_num = soup.find('span', {'id': 'single'})
  print single_num.text
while True:
  getData()
  time.sleep(5)