import urllib2 from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup import webbrowser # Remote Path to your Wikimedia instalation remote_link = "" # Special link for Wikimedia to the Recent Changes Special Page recent_changes_link = "index.php/Special:RecentChanges" link = remote_link + recent_changes_link page = urllib2.urlopen(link) soup = BeautifulSoup(page) test = soup.findAll(text=u"diff") if len(test) != 0: webbrowser.open(link)