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curl command in python requests

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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What is curl command in python requests?

Curl is a command-line tool that is used to transfer data between servers. On the other hand, Python Requests is a library used to send HTTP requests using Python scripts. When combined, we can use the Curl command in Python Requests to send HTTP requests and get responses from servers.

Using curl command in Python Requests

To use the curl command in Python Requests, we need to install the Requests library first. We can do this using pip command as follows:


pip install requests

Once we have installed the library, we can import it in our Python script and use it to send HTTP requests. Here is an example:


import requests

url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts'

response = requests.get(url)

print(response.json())

In the above example, we have used the Requests library to send a GET request to the server and get a response. We have also printed the JSON response that we received from the server.

Using curl command-line options in Python Requests

We can also use the curl command-line options in Python Requests. Here is an example:


import requests

url = 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts'

headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36'}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.status_code)

In the above example, we have used the -H option of the curl command to send a custom header to the server. We have also printed the status code that we received from the server.

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