Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Introduction to requests

Requests allow you to send requests to an HTTP server and get responses and messages sent by the server. They're available as the Requests package on PyPI. This can either be installed through pip or be downloaded from http://docs.python-requests.org, which hosts the documentation. You can install the requests library on your system in an easy way with the pip command:

pip install requests

The requests library automates and simplifies many of the tasks that we've been looking at. The quickest way of illustrating this is by trying some examples. The commands for retrieving a URL with Requests are similar to retrieving a URL with the urllib package.

The request.get() function sends a request using the get method with ...