Zipcode to County in Python

My most excellent colleague was pointing out the need for County data in a particular application. I had some geo-data for the particular data, but was lacking the County data that we needed. After some google-fu, I found that somebody had a web-app that would do just what i wanted to. I fired up firebug to search for the tags I wanted. Upon discovering that they used HTML TABLES, I fell ill. I then pulled myself together, and wrote a function to grab the county name from a zipcode in python. Enjoy!

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
from urllib2 import urlopen
 
def lookup(zip):
    try:
        f = urlopen('http://www.getzips.com/CGI-BIN/ziplook.exe?What=1&Zip=%s&Submit=Look+It+Up' % (zip))
        data = f.read()
        f.close()
        soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
        table = soup.findAll('table')[-1]
        return table.findAll('p')[-2].string
    except:
        return None
29 March 2010 in Python, Scraping

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