pyPerspectives is a Python client for Perspectives.
python setup.py install
pyPerspectives comes with the script notary-query.py which can be
used to get raw notary responses.
$ notary-query.py -N http_notary_list.txt encrypted.google.com
Notary Response Version: 1 Signature type: rsa-md5
Sig: ANpjvbPxecP6N+3+PgCJNq+WO4VOdYC6tZttASF2CAbbn4twjeeizHZlx221AZvaqMQbeboN5tkH8+ZN5NRC+aRHgBXlkr6HcDASc8QxGHXfTev5LuCEu9Xl7oF4VgwP5vdKsMAoP7r/bvta4hulxljxLnv31Yg33AvLYpDySzucXaLgOW5bEwoJozmQ+A+mEol7UtCwlxje88Kjj2TGy71m6vvapr58y+ZgSA==
...and so forth...
Run notary-query.py -h for a full set of options.
>>> import Perspectives
>>> notaries = Perspectives.Notaries.from_file("http_notary_list.txt")
>>> from Perspectives import Service
>>> s = Service("encrypted.google.com", 443)
>>> responses = notaries.query(s)
>>> for response in responses:
... print response
Notary Response Version: 1 Signature type: rsa-md5
Sig: ANpjvbPxecP6N+3+PgCJNq+WO4VOdYC6tZttASF2CAbbn4twjeeizHZlx221AZvaqMQbeboN5tkH8+ZN5NRC+aRHgBXlkr6HcDASc8QxGHXfTev5LuCEu9Xl7oF4VgwP5vdKsMAoP7r/bvta4hulxljxLnv31Yg33AvLYpDySzucXaLgOW5bEwoJozmQ+A+mEol7UtCwlxje88Kjj2TGy71m6vvapr58y+ZgSA==
Fingerprint: 3d:76:a1:94:c6:d3:c1:78:39:ab:a1:58:7c:f9:61:95 type: 2
Thu Jun 16 03:25:56 2011 - Wed Jul 6 16:05:46 2011
... and so forth ...
>>> response = responses[0]
>>> print response.last_key_seen()
Fingerprint: 3d:76:a1:94:c6:d3:c1:78:39:ab:a1:58:7c:f9:61:95 type: 2
Thu Jun 16 03:25:56 2011 - Wed Jul 6 16:05:46 2011
>>> print response.key_change_times()
[1309982746, 1308209156, 1305746492, 1306221594, 1304666319, 1306135184, 1306135183, 1307431699, 1305746493, 1306221595, 1300260961, 1295888489, 1308209155, 1307431700, 1304666318, 1300260962]