import urllib2 import json url="http://letsrevolutionizetesting.com/challenge.json" opener = urllib2.build_opener() opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36')] def follow(url): print url page = opener.open(url).read() print page url = json.loads(page)['follow'] url = url.replace('challenge?', 'challenge.json?') follow(url) follow(url)