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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python
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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

by Anish Chapagain
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
350 pages
8h 13m
English
Packt Publishing
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HTTP

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol that transfers resources such as HTML documents between a client and a web server. HTTP is a stateless protocol that follows the client-server model. Clients (web browsers) and web servers communicate or exchange information using HTTP Requests and HTTP Responses:

HTTP (client-server communication)

With HTTP requests or HTTP methods, a client or browser submits requests to the server. There are various methods (also known as HTTP request methods) for submitting requests, such as GET, POST, and PUT:

  • GET: This is a common method for requesting information. It is considered ...
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