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  1. jtg567 created this gist Dec 2, 2015.
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    from lxml import html
    import requests

    #scrape periscope desktop page; meta tag token-id content is empty when not streaming
    page = requests.get('https://www.periscope.tv/<replace username>')
    tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
    air_status = tree.xpath('//*[@id="token-id"]/@content')