import requests def getNext(arg): url = "http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/linkedlist.php" params = "nothing={}".format(arg) res = requests.get(url, params) cont = res.text print(cont) ary = cont.split(' ') next_arg = ary[-1] if next_arg.isdigit(): print(next_arg) getNext(next_arg) else: print("result is: {}".format(next_arg)) getNext(12345)