Here: http://diveintopython.org/http_web_services/index.html#oa.divein Here: Cookbook rel 2, and: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python?kwd=Web Here:other really good py intros which cover 2.2 / urllib (maybe 2.3, I don't have them with me), but examples should all not give deprecation warnings: Practical Py (Hetland), Text Processing (Mertz).