from xmlrpclib import Server from pprint import pprint query = {'search':'Python', 'time_period':'7DAYS',} meerkatURI = 'http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat/xml-rpc/server.php' meerkatSrv = Server(meerkatURI) data = meerkatSrv.meerkat.getItems(query) pprint(data)