Parsing Facebook using Python

This is an example of parsing Facebook to pull status updates out:

 from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
 
 class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
 

  story = False
  time = True
  text = ''
  updates=[]
  times=[]
  
  def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):

         #print "Encountered the beginning of a %s tag" % tag
   if tag == 'span' and attrs:
    for name,value in attrs:

     if name=='class' and value=='UIStory_Message':
      self.story=True
     if name=='class' and value=='UIIntentionalStory_Time':

      self.time=True
 
  def handle_endtag(self, tag):
   if self.story:
    #if len(self.text) > 0:
    self.updates.append(self.text)

    self.text = ''
    self.story=False
   
  def handle_data(self, data):
   if self.story:
    self.text = self.text + data.strip().replace("\n","")

   if self.time:
    update_count = len(self.updates)
    if( update_count > 0 ):
     self.updates[update_count-1] = data + " " +self.updates[update_count-1]
    self.time=False
 
 f = open('facebook log.htm', 'r')

 
 htmlSource = f.read()
 myparser = MyHTMLParser()
 myparser.feed(htmlSource)
 
 update_count = len(myparser.updates)
 while update_count > 0:
  update_count -= 1
  print myparser.updates[update_count]