requestsscrapethread

def scrapethread(cleanthread):		# We need to feed the thread data into the function
    singlethreadlinksearch = re.compile(r'\<a class="storylink" href="(.+?)"\>')		
    singlethreadlink = singlethreadlinksearch.findall(str(cleanthread))
    commenterIDsearch = re.compile(r'user\?id=(.+?)"')
    commenterIDs = commenterIDsearch.findall(str(cleanthread))
    try:
        firstcommenter = commenterIDs[1]		# If there are no commenters this will fail, so we wrap it in a try/except just in case
    except:
        firstcommenter = "No commenters"
    return singlethreadlink, firstcommenter		# Return the variables