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Hey, here’s a Q&D script to get a random quote from the bash.org quotedb. Enjoy. (Note that some
quotes are just not safe for work. This is the nature of
bash.org.)

#!/usr/bin/python
# bash.org random quotefetcher, by dsandler.org

import sys, urllib, re
URL = "http://bash.org/?random1"
fetch = urllib.urlopen(URL)

quote = ""
line = 1
while line:
    line = fetch.readline()
    if re.match(r'<p class="quote">', line):
        quote = line
        line = ""

while line:
    line = fetch.readline()
    if re.match(r'<p class="quote">', line):
        line = ""
    else:
        quote = quote + line

fetch.close()

if quote != "":
    sys.stdout.write(quote)