Requests

Intro

The Python requests library is a user-friendly module that simplifies making HTTP requests. It abstracts away the low-level details of interacting with web servers, allowing you to send GET, POST, and other types of requests easily, handle responses, manage cookies, and work with JSON or form data.

Requests: HTTP for Humans™

Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, thanks to urllib3.

Python’s Requests Library (Guide)

Example usage

import requests
 
# Make a GET request
response = requests.get('https://api.example.com/data')
 
# Check the status code
if response.status_code == 200:
    print("Request successful!")
    print("Response content:", response.json()) # Assuming JSON response
else:
    print(f"Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}")
 
# Make a POST request with data
payload = {'key': 'value'}
post_response = requests.post('https://api.example.com/submit', json=payload)
print("POST response:", post_response.text)

Tutorial

Python Requests Tutorial: Request Web Pages, Download Images, POST Data, Read JSON, and More