gistfile1.py

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import re
import urllib2
import urllib
import cookielib
def grab(user, passwd):
    values = {'user' : user, 'passwd' : passwd, 'dest' : "/prefs/friends/"}
    url = 'http://www.reddit.com/post/login'
    data = urllib.urlencode(values)
    req = urllib2.Request(url, data)
    response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
    the_page = response.read()
    return the_page



if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    user = sys.argv[1]
    passwd = sys.argv[2]
    html = grab(user, passwd)
    print html
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html)
    links = soup.findAll('a', href=re.compile('^http://www.reddit.com/user/.*'))
    print links