import urllib, re, time, os fp = urllib.urlopen("http://www.jonobacon.org/") data = fp.read() fp.close() comcount = len(re.findall("ommunit",data)) fil = os.path.join(os.path.split(__file__)[0],"counts") fp = open(fil, "a") fp.write("%s %s\n" % (time.time(), comcount)) fp.close()