import re from util import hook, http from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup @hook.command(autohelp=False) def wordu(inp, say=False, nick=False): ".word -- gets the word of the day return "true" page = http.get('http://merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day') soup = BeautifulSoup(page) word = soup.find('strong', {'class' : 'main_entry_word'}) function = soup.find('p', {'class' : 'word_function'}) #definitions = re.findall(r':' # r' *([^<]+)', content) say("(%s) The word of the day is: \x02%s\x02 (%s)" % (nick, word, function))