Main_URL = 'http://www.livescore.com' Soccer_URL = 'http://www.livescore.com/default.dll' def get_SLatest(): data = urllib.urlopen(Soccer_URL) data = data.read() temp = ('content=["].*?=(.*?)["]') s_url = re.findall(temp, data) source_raw = s_url[0] source = unicode (source_raw, 'utf-8') source_url = Main_URL + source print Main_URL print source print source_url try: results = source_url except: results = "nothing found" SLatest = results return SLatest