Times Of India Headlines Desktop Notifications.

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import subprocess
import time

url = "http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/"

def open_url(url):
    return requests.get(url).text  # returns html

def get_bsoup_object(html):
    return BeautifulSoup(html, "lxml")  # returns soup (BeautifulSoup's object)


def sendmessage(message):
    subprocess.Popen(['notify-send', message])
    return


def main():
    myhtml = open_url(url)
    soup = get_bsoup_object(myhtml)
    j = 1

    for i in soup.find('ul',attrs={'class':'list9'}).findAll('li'):
        #print(str(j) + " " + i.text)
        sendmessage(str(j) + " " + i.text)
        time.sleep(10)
        j += 1



while True:
    main()
    time.sleep(3600)