Google via mechanize

gistfile1.txt

import mechanize
br = mechanize.Browser()
br.set_handle_equiv(True)
br.set_handle_redirect(True)
br.set_handle_referer(True)
br.set_handle_robots(False)
br.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1')]

def doSearch(term):
    global br
    br.open("http://www.google.com")
    br.select_form(name="f")
    br["q"]=term
    resp = br.submit()
    return list(br.links())[39] #currently the 40th link is the first result

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print "Type anything into the prompt to get googles first link!"
    print "Press return without anything typed, to quit"

    while True:
        x = raw_input("google>")
        if not x:
            exit(0)
        link = doSearch(x)
        print link.text
        print link.url