gistfile1.py

from urllib.request import quote
import urllib3
from lxml import etree

http = urllib3.PoolManager()

def getFriends(uname):
  r = http.request('GET', 'http://juick.com/%s/friends' % quote(uname))
  t = etree.HTML(r.data)
  friends = t.xpath('/html/body/div[@id="wrapper"]/div[@id="content"]/p/a[@class="p16"]/text()')
  return friends

def getReaders(uname):
  r = http.request('GET', 'http://juick.com/%s/readers' % quote(uname))
  t = etree.HTML(r.data)
  readers = t.xpath('/html/body/div[@id="wrapper"]/div[@id="content"]/p/a[@class="p16"]/text()')
  return readers