The first job is to install ‘requests’. Use pip to do this.
Creating the response object
For this, you will have to import to request module first.
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import requests |
Now, we will try to get a webpage. You can choose any webpage. For this example, I choose Google’s home page.
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r=requests.get("https://google.coom/") |
Here, ‘r’ is the response object. You can name it ‘response’ also or use any other name following the python variable naming conventions.
Response Methods
response.headers : Use this to get a dictionary of response headers
response.encoding : Use this to know the encoding used to decode the response.content
response.elapsed : This will give you a timedelta object with the time elapsed from sending the request to the arrival of the response
response.close() : This closes the server connection
response.content : You will get the content of the response in bytes
response.cookies : This returns a Cookiejar object with the cookies sent back from the server
response.history : This returns a list of response objects holding the history of request (url)
response.is_permanent_redirect : It will return ‘True’ is the response is the permanent redirected url, otherwise it will return ‘False’
response.is_redirect : It will return ‘True’ is the response was redirected, otherwise it will return ‘False’
response.iter_content() : It iterates over the response.content
response.json() : Returns a JSON object of the result (if the result was written in JSON format, if not it raises an error)
response.url() : Returns the URL of the response
response.text : Returns the content of the response in unicode
response.status_code : Returns a number that indicates the status (200 is Ok, 404 is Not Found)
response.request : Returns the request object that requested this response
response.reason : Returns a text corresponding to the status code
response.raise_for_status() : Returns an HTTPError object if an error has occurred during the process
response.ok : Returns ‘True’ if status_code is less than 200, otherwise ‘False’
response.links : Returns the header links
References
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-requests-tutorial/
