Extract Tweets from HTML

I wanted tweets in this format:

@jcfrancisco
8:36 AM - 15 Nov 2017
Not even Firefox Quantum can scroll thru The Outline's site without slowing down

@RodericDay
10:03 AM - 15 Nov 2017
probably the worst designed site that I occasionally want to actually check out

So I wrote this code:

import codecs
import requests
import os
import pickle
import re

from html.parser import HTMLParser


def request(url, cache=False):
    if cache:
        fname = codecs.encode(url.encode(), "hex").decode()

        if not os.path.exists(fname):
            response = requests.get(url)
            response.raise_for_status()
            with open(fname, "wb") as fp:
                pickle.dump(response, fp)

        with open(fname, "rb") as fp:
            return pickle.load(fp).content.decode()

    else:
        response = requests.get(url)
        response.raise_for_status()
        return response.content.decode()


class MyHTMLParser(HTMLParser):
    listening = False

    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        attrd = dict(attrs)
        classs = attrd.get('class', '')

        if 'tweet' in classs and 'data-screen-name' in attrd:
            print('@'+attrd['data-screen-name'])

        if 'tweet-timestamp' in classs:
            print(attrd["title"])

        if 'js-tweet-text-container' in classs:
            self.listening = True


    def handle_data(self, data):
        if self.listening and data.strip():
            print(data)
            print()
            self.listening = False


html = request("https://twitter.com/sirosenbaum/status/932789502472523777")
parser = MyHTMLParser()
parser.feed(html)