from urllib import urlopen import sys sys.path.append('/home/pat/.pylib') from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup as Soup key = "89G_Z7bV34EBvTF81os7wjnIkDKxLE4fjJpji0_6oEpDCW3iTKh2jW2leraj9A--" url = "http://search.yahooapis.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?appid=%s&query=%s" def search(query): return urlopen(url % (key,query)).read() hc = search('haitian creole') hcx = Soup(hc) print hc