Get BiGG compounds for KEGG IDs from BiGG Models

advanced_search_scrape.py

import requests
import re

response = requests.post(
    'http://bigg.ucsd.edu/advanced_search_external_id_results',
    data={'database_source': 'kegg.compound', 'query': 'C00234'}
)

try:
    print re.search(r'/models/universal/metabolites/([^"]+)', response.text).group(1)
except AttributeError:
    print 'no result'