Getting top 100 players from GameMe API

# -*- coding: cp866 -*-
import requests
from lxml import etree
game = 'insurg'
count = '100'
steam_ids = []
gameme_page = 'http://stats.whiskey-server.ru'
req = gameme_page + '/api/playerlist/' + game + '?limit=' + count
r = requests.get(req)
resp = r.text.encode('utf-8')
tree = etree.XML(resp)
playerlist = tree.xpath('/gameME/playerlist/player')
for player in playerlist:
    print (player.find('rank').text + ' ---- ' + player.find('uniqueid').text)
    steam_ids.append(player.find('uniqueid').text)
print(steam_ids)
with open('steam_ids.txt', 'w') as f:
    for steam in steam_ids:
        f.write(str(steam) + '\n')