Retrieves the name of a spell using the spell id from wowhead.com

gistfile1.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import lxml.html
from string import replace

# define a list of mount spell id's
mount_id_lst = ['61470','13819']

# loop through each id
for mount_id in mount_id_lst:

    # Create the url for wowhead for this spell id
    url = "http://www.wowhead.com/spell=%s" % mount_id

    # Retrive and parse the xml into t
    t = lxml.html.parse(url)

    # Extract the title
    name = t.find(".//title").text

    # Split the title on ' - ', and grab the first element (removes the " - Spell - World of Warcraft" from the title)
    name = name.split(' - ')[0]

    # Print the result
    print "For mount spell id [%s] the name is [%s]" % (mount_id, name)

exit(0)