Menu
Article Case Studies

python requests

Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

• 1 min read

Python Requests

If you want to send HTTP requests to a website or API using Python, then you can use the requests module. It is an elegant and simple HTTP library that makes it easy to send HTTP/1.1 requests using Python.

Installing Python Requests

You can install requests using pip:

pip install requests

Sending a GET Request

To send a GET request to a website, you can use the get() method:

import requests

response = requests.get('https://www.example.com')

print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

The get() method will return a Response object. You can access the status code using the status_code attribute and the content of the response using the text attribute.

Sending a POST Request

To send a POST request to a website, you can use the post() method:

import requests

data = {'username': 'john', 'password': 'secret'}
response = requests.post('https://www.example.com/login', data=data)

print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

The post() method accepts a second parameter, data, which is the data to be sent in the request body. In this example, we are sending a dictionary of data.

Sending Headers

You can send headers along with your requests. Headers are useful for sending authentication tokens or user agent information.

import requests

headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ', 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
response = requests.get('https://www.example.com', headers=headers)

print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

The headers are passed as a dictionary to the headers parameter of the request methods.

Handling Exceptions

Requests can raise exceptions if there is a problem with the request. You can catch these exceptions and handle them appropriately:

import requests

try:
    response = requests.get('https://www.example.com/404')
    response.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as error:
    print(error)

The raise_for_status() method will raise an exception if the status code of the response indicates an error (like 404 Not Found). You can catch this exception and handle it in your code.

Share