DATA="Table Of Contents" URL=r'https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/errors.html' import urllib import urllib2 import cookielib import re import sys jar = cookielib.FileCookieJar("cookie") opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar)) user_agent={'User-Agent' : "Magic Browser"} login_request = urllib2.Request(URL) login_reply = opener.open(login_request) login_reply_data = login_reply.read() out=re.findall(DATA,login_reply_data) if DATA in login_reply_data: print "Content is found in webpage as below:" print DATA elif len(out)>0: print "Content is found in webpage as below:" print "\n"+out[0] else: print "No data"