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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 PUT & POST data — but nowadays, just use the json method!
Syntax
requests.methodname(params)
Methods
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| delete(url, args) | Sends a DELETE request to the specified url |
| get(url, params, args) | Sends a GET request to the specified url |
| head(url, args) | Sends a HEAD request to the specified url |
| patch(url, data, args) | Sends a PATCH request to the specified url |
| post(url, data, json, args) | Sends a POST request to the specified url |
| put(url, data, args) | Sends a PUT request to the specified url |
| request(method, url, args) | Sends a request of the specified method to the specified url |
Features
Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speaking applications, for the needs of today.
- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
- International Domains and URLs
- Sessions with Cookie Persistence
- Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification
- Basic & Digest Authentication
- Familiar
dict–like Cookies - Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding
- Multi-part File Uploads
- SOCKS Proxy Support
- Connection Timeouts
- Streaming Downloads
- Automatic honoring of
.netrc - Chunked HTTP Requests
Installation
$ python -m pip install requests
Code
import requests as req
webresponse = req.get("https://duckduckgo.com/")
print(webresponse.text)
import requests as req
data = {'website': 'maxpython'}
postresponse = req.post("https://httpbin.org/post", data)
print(postresponse.text)
