#!/usr/bin/env python import sys import urllib url = 'http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/rest/submit' params = {} params = urllib.urlencode({'tool':'iprscan', 'sequence':'uniprot:slpi_human', 'email':'your@email.com', 'seqtype':'P'}) jobid = urllib.urlopen(url, params).read() print jobid