from google.appengine.api import urlfetch from elementtree.ElementTree import * url="http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/" url += "?method=flickr.photos.search&text=test" url += "&api_key=XXX" url += "&per_page=3" result = urlfetch.fetch(url) #print result.content tree = ElementTree(fromstring(result.content)) for item in tree.findall('.//photos'): print item[0].get('id') print item[0].get('title'