searchcraig.py

from http.client import HTTPSConnection
from html.parser import HTMLParser


class MYHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == 'a':
            for name, value in attrs:
                if name == "href":
                    print(name, "=", value)

def getSearchResults(city, searchstring):
    rooturl = "{0}.craigslist.org".format(city)
    paramurl = "/search/sss?query={0}&sort=rel".format(searchstring)
    connection = HTTPSConnection(rooturl)
    connection.request("GET", paramurl)

    response = connection.getresponse()

    print(response.status, response.reason)

    responsebody = response.read().decode('utf-8')
    return responsebody

    

parser = MYHTMLParser()
parser.feed(getSearchResults("indianapolis", "aeron"))