Python 3 - Second Edition

34.3    The Easy Way: requests

The third-party requests module enables you to access resources on the internet via HTTP and enjoys great popularity. It particularly impresses with its ease of use and can be installed via the conda and pip package managers:

$ conda install requests$ pip install requests  

The online documentation for requests can be found at requests.readthedocs.io.

34.3.1    Simple Requests via GET and POST

After the module is imported, it provides the get and post functions that can be used to send respective HTTP requests to a web server:

>>> import requests>>> r_get = requests.get("https://www.python-book.com")>>> r_post = requests.post("https://www.python-book.com")  

The requests are executed directly by calling get or