Python script to get Xbox Live friends

xbl.py

#!/usr/local/bin/python
import urllib
import urllib2
import re
import json
import htmlentitydefs
import cookielib

LOGIN,PASSWD = "yourlogin@someemail.com", "yourpassword"

def unescape(text):
    def fixup(m):
        text = m.group(0)
        if text[:2] == "&#":
            # character reference
            try:
                if text[:3] == "&#x":
                    return unichr(int(text[3:-1], 16))
                else:
                    return unichr(int(text[2:-1]))
            except ValueError:
                pass
        else:
            # named entity
            try:
                text = unichr(htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint[text[1:-1]])
            except KeyError:
                pass
        return text # leave as is
    return re.sub("&#?\w+;", fixup, text)

URL = "http://live.xbox.com/en-US/friendcenter"

HEADERS = [("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)"),
("Referer", "http://live.xbox.com/en-US/friendcenter?xr=shellnav"), ("X-Requested-With", "XMLHttpRequest")]
            
cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
opener.addheaders = HEADERS
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
resp = urllib2.urlopen(URL)

data = resp.read()
action = re.findall(r"srf_uPost=\'(.*?)\'", data)[0]
params = re.findall(r"<input.*?name=\"(.*?)\".*?value=\"(.*?)\"", data)
params = filter(lambda p: p[0] != "login" and p[1] != "passwd", params)
params.append(("login", LOGIN))
params.append(("passwd", PASSWD))
    
resp = urllib2.urlopen(action, urllib.urlencode(params))

data = resp.read()

action = re.findall(r"action=\"(.*?)\"", data)[0]
params = re.findall(r"<input.*?name=\"(.*?)\".*?value=\"(.*?)\"", data)
resp = urllib2.urlopen(action, urllib.urlencode(params))

data = resp.read()

params = re.findall(r"<input.*?name=\"(.*?)\".*?value=\"(.*?)\"", data)
resp = urllib2.urlopen("http://live.xbox.com/en-US/friendcenter/Friends", urllib.urlencode(params))
data = resp.read()
data = unicode(data, "utf8")

friends = []
current = []

for user in json.loads(data, encoding="utf8")['Users']:
    if user["IsOnline"]:
        presence = user["Presence"].replace("online playing", "").replace("\r\n", " ")
        friends.append((user["Gamertag"], presence))

if not friends:
    print "No Xbox Live friends online"
    exit(0)

for gamertag, game in sorted(friends, key=lambda x:x[0].lower()):
    print "%s :: %s" % tuple([s.encode("utf8").strip() for s in (gamertag, game)])