Scratch that, the code is simpler. Serves me right for not checking things twice: import urllib,urllib2 opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()) request = urllib2.Request('http://books.google.com/books?bibkeys=0618379436&jscmd= viewapi&callback=mycallback') opener.addheaders = [('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3')] data = opener.open(request).read() print data Mike Beccaria Systems Librarian Head of Digital Initiatives Paul Smith's College 518.327.6376 [log in to unmask]