scraper.py

from  urllib2 import urlopen
import time

def scrape(url, term) :

    # Make the http request for the resource
    response = urlopen(url)
    
    # Read the response body to a variable
    html = response.read()

    # Create a unique token for filename
    ts = time.time()
    
    # Generate a string for the filename
    filename = "scrape" + str(ts) + ".html"

    # Write html as a file to disk
    f = open(filename, "w")
    f.write(html)

    # Open the file
    s = open(filename, "r")

    # Read the file and check if the search term is present
    if term in s.read():
        
        # Return a message to the user that the search term was found
        return "Found " + term + " in " + url
    
    # Return a message to the user that the search term was not found
    return term + " was not found in " + url


print scrape('URL', 'SearchTerm')