import urllib.request as req

#Search parameters for ABRSearchByNameSimpleProtocol service

#Note, this service requires all parameters to be specified, even if you specify no query parameter

#The parameters specified below will search for an entity with the name 'coles' with postcode '2250'

#In this case, unspecified search parameters all default to 'Y'

#(i.e. will search for the legal & trading name 'coles' in all States and Territories

name = 'coles'

postcode = '2250'

legalName = ''

tradingName = ''

NSW = ''

SA = ''

ACT = ''

VIC = ''

WA = ''

NT = ''

QLD = ''

TAS = ''

authenticationGuid = '' #Your GUID should go here

#Constructs the URL by inserting the search parameters specified above

#GETs the url (using urllib.request.urlopen)

conn = req.urlopen('https://abr.business.gov.au/abrxmlsearchRPC/AbrXmlSearch.asmx/' +

'ABRSearchByNameSimpleProtocol?name=' + name +

'&postcode=' + postcode + '&legalName=' + legalName +

'&tradingName=' + tradingName + '&NSW=' + NSW +

'&SA=' + SA + '&ACT=' + ACT + '&VIC=' + VIC +

'&WA=' + WA + '&NT=' + NT + '&QLD=' + QLD +

'&TAS=' + TAS + '&authenticationGuid=' + authenticationGuid)

#XML is returned by the webservice

#Put returned xml into variable 'returnedXML'

#Output xml string to file 'output.xml' and print to console

returnedXML = conn.read()

f = open('output.xml', 'wb')

f.write(returnedXML)

f.close

print(returnedXML)