import re x = 'envFlush({"user":"100002298034552","locale":"pl_PL","method":"GET","svn_rev":534081,"vip":"69.171.228.12","static_base":"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/","www_base":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/","rep_lag":2,"fb_dtsg":"AQBq8upG","ajaxpipe_token":"AXixBiqWh9DLwJtX","lhsh":"lAQEChYZs","tracking_domain":"http:\/\/pixel.facebook.com","retry_ajax_on_network_error":"1","html5_audio":"1","fbid_emoticons":"1"});' reg = re.compile('envFlush\((?P.*)\)') fb = reg.search(x) print fb.groupdict()['json'] --- {"user":"100002298034552","locale":"pl_PL","method":"GET","svn_rev":534081,"vip":"69.171.228.12","static_base":"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/","www_base":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/","rep_lag":2,"fb_dtsg":"AQBq8upG","ajaxpipe_token":"AXixBiqWh9DLwJtX","lhsh":"lAQEChYZs","tracking_domain":"http:\/\/pixel.facebook.com","retry_ajax_on_network_error":"1","html5_audio":"1","fbid_emoticons":"1"});