Requests¶

Info

Requests is a Python library for HTTP requests. It is used to send HTTP requests to a server and receive a response. There is also an inbuilt library called urllib for the same purpose but a little bit more complicated to use.

Get Request¶

requestsurllib

import requests

response = requests.get("https://example.com")
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

# Output:
# >>> 200
# >>> <!doctype html>
# >>> <html>
# >>> <head>
# >>> <title>Example Domain</title>
# >>> ...

import urllib.request

response = urllib.request.urlopen("https://example.com")
print(response.status)
print(response.read().decode("utf-8"))

# Output:
# >>> 200
# >>> <!doctype html>
# >>> <html>
# >>> <head>
# >>> <title>Example Domain</title>
# >>> ...

Get & Save File¶

requestsurllib

import requests

response = requests.get("https://example.com/example.csv")
with open("example.csv", "wb") as file:
    file.write(response.content)

import urllib.request

response = urllib.request.urlopen("https://example.com/example.csv")
with open("example.csv", "wb") as file:
    file.write(response.read())