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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# http://github.com/mitchweaver/bin
+#
+# get the location of a given band from metal-archives
+#
+# Usage: ./location 'black sabbath'
+#
+
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from bs4.element import Comment
+import urllib.request
+import sys
+
+def tag_visible(element):
+    if element.parent.name in ['style', 'script', 'head', 'title', 'meta', '[document]']:
+        return False
+    if isinstance(element, Comment):
+        return False
+    return True
+
+def text_from_html(body):
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(body, 'html.parser')
+    texts = soup.findAll(text=True)
+    visible_texts = filter(tag_visible, texts)  
+    lines = []
+    for line in visible_texts:
+        lines.append(line)
+    return lines
+
+def parse(url):
+    try:
+        html = urllib.request.urlopen(url.replace(' ', '_').lower()).read()
+
+        location = []
+        found_count = 0
+        for line in text_from_html(html):
+            if len(line.strip()) < 2: continue
+            if 'Country of origin:' in line:
+                location.append(line)
+                found_count = 1
+            elif found_count > 0:
+                location.append(line)
+                found_count += 1
+            if found_count == 4:
+                break
+
+        print(location[0] + ' ' + location[1])
+        print(location[2] + ' ' + location[3])
+    except:
+        print("Can't find it?")
+
+def main():
+    parse(url = 'https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/' + sys.argv[1])
+
+if __name__ == "__main__": main()