By Javier Gonzalez
Requests library in Python
Python Requests Library
Sometimes we need with a script written in Python accessing to an API or download the content of a web page.
For that we can use the Requests Library
First we need to install the library:
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pip install requests
Code Example :
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import requests
# The requests module provides us different methods (get, post, update, delete)
r = requests.get('http://www.google.com')
# In the request method also it is possible to specify the headers, the cookies and the data sent
headers = { 'accept' : '*/*' }
payload = { 'title' : 'Download web page with python' }
cookies = dict(example_cookie='value')
r = requests.post('https://reqres.in/api/posts', data=payload, headers=headers, cookies=cookies)
# With the object returned
# We could check the status code of the response
r.status_code
# We could obtain the content of the page as a string
r.text
# Or if the url is an API, we could obtain the response in json format
r.json()