getLikelyURL(vendorname)

gistfile1.txt

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re

likelyURLlookup = {} # use dynamic programming to build a lookup table

def getLikelyURL(vendorname):
    try:
        likelyURLlookup[vendorname]
    except KeyError:
        page = requests.get('http://google.com/search?q=' + ' '.join(vendorname))
        soup = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
        links = soup.findAll("a")
        topLink = soup.find_all("a",href=re.compile("(?<=/url\?q=)(htt.*://.*)"))[0]
        urlExtended = re.split(":(?=http)",topLink["href"].replace("/url?q=",""))[0]
        likelyURLlookup[vendorname] = urlExtended.split('&')[0]
    return likelyURLlookup[vendorname]