google-images

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, random, re, urllib, urllib2, json

def process_msg(line):
    image_me = re.compile("(image|im)( me)? (.*)", re.IGNORECASE).match(line)
    animate_me = re.compile("animate me (.*)", re.IGNORECASE).match(line)
    
    if image_me:
        return fetch_image(image_me.group(3))
    elif animate_me:
        return fetch_image("animated " + animate_me.group(1))
    else:
        sys.exit()
        
def fetch_image(query):
    try:
        images = fetch_results(query)
    except urllib2.URLError:
        return "Nothing out there buddy, sorry."
       
    return images[random.randrange(0,len(images))]["unescapedUrl"]
         
def fetch_results(query):
    url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/images"
    values = {
        "v": "1.0",
        "rsz": "8",
        "q": query
    }
    response = urllib2.urlopen("{}?{}".format(url, urllib.urlencode(values)))

    results = json.loads(response.read())
    return results["responseData"]["results"]
    

def main():
    msg = sys.argv[1]
    print process_msg(msg)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Have you seen http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html ?

I was thinking the same thing, actually.