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from sys import argv
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests
if __name__ == "__main__":
search = requests.get("https://www.gov.uk/api/search.json?q=%s&filter_format%%5B%%5D=answer" % argv[1])
for result in search.json()["results"]:
answer = requests.get("https://www.gov.uk%s" % result["link"])
soup = BeautifulSoup(answer.text, 'html.parser')
highlight = soup.find_all('div', class_="highlight-answer")
if highlight:
print result["link"]
print highlight[0].text
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