Generate random name using the behindthename.com/random

random-name.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import urllib
import re
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

url = 'https://www.behindthename.com/random/random.php?number=2&gender=both&surname=&norare=yes&nodiminutives=yes&all=no&usage_ara=1&usage_arm=1&usage_bre=1&usage_eng=1&usage_fre=1&usage_fri=1&usage_ger=1&usage_ita=1&usage_por=1&usage_sco=1&usage_grem=1&usage_romm=1&usage_grea=1&usage_roma=1'

class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
    found_container = False
    is_name_tag = False
    name_found = False
    names = []
    
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if self._check_container(tag, attrs):
            self.found_container = True
            
        if self.found_container:
            self.is_name_tag = self._check_name_tag(tag, attrs)

    def handle_endtag(self, tag):
        if tag=='span' and self.found_container:
            self.found_container = False
            

    def handle_data(self, data):
        if self.found_container and self.is_name_tag:
            if re.match('[a-zA-Z]{2,}', data):
                name_found = True
                self.names.append(re.sub('[^a-zA-Z]+', '', data))
        
    
    def get_fullname(self):
        return ' '.join(self.names)
    
    def has_name(self):
        return self.name_found
    
    
    def _check_container(self, tag, attrs):
        return self._search_attr(attrs, 'class', 'heavyhuge')
    
    
    def _check_name_tag(self, tag, attrs):
        return self._search_attr(attrs, 'class', 'plain')
    
    
    def _search_attr(self, attrs, attrname, attrvalue):
        found = False
        attr_len = len(attrs)
        if attr_len>0 :
            for i in range(0, attr_len):
                attr = attrs[i]
                name = attr[0]
                value = attr[1]
                if name==attrname and value==attrvalue:
                    found = True
                    break
        
        return found


def get_url_contents(url):
    f = urllib.urlopen(url)
    contents = f.read()
    f.close()
    return contents;

parser = MyHTMLParser()
parser.feed(get_url_contents(url))

if parser.has_name:
    print parser.get_fullname()
else:
    print 'Sorry, no name was found :('