Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

Go is simple

Beyond the architecture of the Go programming language itself, the standard library offers all the right packages you need to make web scraping easy. Go offers a built-in HTTP client in the net/http package that is fully-featured out of the box, but also allows for a lot of customization. Making an HTTP request is as simple, as follows:

http.Get("http://example.com")

Also a part of the net/http package are utilities to structure HTTP requests, HTTP responses, and all of the HTTP status codes, which we will dive into later in this book. You will rarely need any third-party packages to handle communication with web servers. The Go standard library also has tools to help analyze HTTP requests, quickly consume HTTP response bodies, ...