Python spam bot

    import urllib2
    import random
    import re
    import socket
    import thread
    import time
    from HTMLParser import HTMLParser


    #-- IRC Setup --#

    def sendmsg(msg, channel):
        irc.send ( 'PRIVMSG ' + channel + ' :' + msg + '\r\n' )

    def sendcmd(cmd, data):
        irc.send ( cmd + ' ' + data + '\r\n' )

    def pingpong(data):
        if data.find ( 'PING' ) != -1:
            irc.send ( 'PONG ' + data.split() [ 1 ] + '\r\n' )

    def pongping(network, data):
        sendcmd('PING', network)
        if 'PING' in data:
            return True
            print 'Connected to ' + network
        else:
            return False

    def rcvdata(data):
        global channel

        if data.find ( 'PRIVMSG' ) != -1:
            nick = data.split ( '!' ) [ 0 ].replace ( ':', '' )
            message = ':'.join ( data.split ( ':' ) [ 2: ] )
            print nick + ':', message.rstrip("\n\r")
            if message.find ('!start') == 0:
                sendmsg("Starting senbot at " + message[7:], channel)
                thread.start_new_thread(fgetse, (message[7:],))
            if message.find ('!quit') == 0:
                sendcmd('QUIT', message[5:])


    #---------------#


    class getlinks(HTMLParser): #Parses html to find links
        def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs): #Handles any opening tag
            global nurl
            if tag == 'a': #If the tag is a link
                for atr in attrs:
                    if atr[0] == 'href': #Get it's href sttribute
                        if atr[1][0:7] == 'http://' or atr[1][0:8] == 'https://': #Make sure it's http of https
                            if random.randrange(0, 8) == 1: #There's a one in nine chance
                                    nurl = atr[1] #That this it will go to this link next

    class striphtml(HTMLParser): #Strips html tags from html data.  Ripped from stackoverflow
        def __init__(self):
            self.reset()
            self.fed = []
        def handle_data(self, d): #if it's data (not a tag)
            self.fed.append(d) #add it to fed[].
        def get_data(self): #return fed[]
            return ''.join(self.fed)


    def striptags(html): #Get html without all that annoying markup!
        s = striphtml() #call the parser
        s.feed(html)
        return s.get_data() #Get the data

    def getse(text): #Gets a sentence form 'text'
        sens = re.findall(r'[A-Z][A-Za-z ,]+[!.?]', text) #Starts with a capital, has 1 or more letters, commas, or spaces, and ends in a !, . , or ?
        if len(sens) != 0: #If the
            rtn = sens[len(sens)-random.randrange(0, len(sens))]
            if len(rtn) > 20:
                return rtn

    def fgetse(surl):
        global nurl
        global channel
        nurl = surl
        user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)' #Set as googlebot to get access to forums/etc.
        headers = { 'User-Agent' : user_agent }
        while True:
            try:
                response = urllib2.urlopen(nurl) #Open link
                html = response.read()
                linkp = getlinks()
                linkp.feed(html)
                #print nurl
                sen = getse(striptags(html))
                if sen != None:
                    sendmsg(sen, channel)
            except: #Oh noes!
                nurl = surl #Go back to lulzy place

    nurl = ''

    network = 'irc.hackthissite.org' #raw_input('What network do you want to join?\n')
    channel = raw_input('What channel do you want to join?\n')
    nick = 'senbot'
    port = 6667
    connected = False

    irc = socket.socket ( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
    irc.connect ( ( network, port ) )

    sendcmd('NICK', nick)
    sendcmd( 'USER', nick + ' foo bar ' + nick )

    conn = False

    while True:
        data = irc.recv(4096)
        pingpong(data)

        if connected:
            if not conn:
                sendcmd('PRIVMSG', 'NickServ IDENTIFY mypassword')
                data = irc.recv ( 4096 )
                while data.find(nick) == -1:
                    time.sleep(1)
                sendcmd('JOIN', channel)
                sendcmd('/mode', nick + ' +B')
                sendmsg('ready!', channel)
                conn = True
            else:
                thread.start_new_thread(rcvdata, (data,))
        else:
            connected = pongping(network, data)