new_contents: """Scrape IEM Cow's API for goodies
  
  License:
    Apache 2.0
  
  Author:
    daryl herzmann akrherz@iastate.edu
  """
  from __future__ import print_function
  import json
  # Python 2 and 3: alternative 4
  try:
      from urllib.request import urlopen
  except ImportError:
      from urllib2 import urlopen
  
  
  def main():
      """Example"""
      # query IEM service to return a list of WFOs
      uri = "https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/geojson/network/WFO.geojson"
      data = urlopen(uri)
      jdict = json.load(data)
      for site in jdict['features']:
          wfo = site['properties']['sid']
          sitename = site['properties']['sname']
  
          endpoint = ("https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/api/1/cow.json?"
                      "begints=2018-07-01T00:00Z&endts=2018-07-31T23:59Z&"
                      "phenomena=TO&lsrtype=TO&wfo=%s" % (wfo, ))
          cowdata = urlopen(endpoint)
          cowdict = json.load(cowdata)
          # print(json.dumps(cowdict, indent=2))
          print(("%s %s issued %s Tornado Warnings this July"
                 ) % (wfo, sitename, cowdict['stats']['events_total']))
  
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      main()
  
subject: add cow API scrapping example , #93