Python Requests Library – Exception Handling & Advanced request.get() Parameters

This is the first part of a 3-part series on the Python request library: Python Requests Library – Your First HTTP Request in Python Python Requests Library – Understanding requests.get() Parameters Python Requests Library – Exception Handling & Advanced request.get() Parameters Syntax Background & Preparation The Requests library has several methods for GET. Part 1 … Read more

Python Requests Library – Understanding requests.get()

This is the first part of a 3-part series on the Python request library: Python Requests Library – Your First HTTP Request in Python Python Requests Library – Understanding requests.get() Parameters Python Requests Library – Exception Handling & Advanced request.get() Parameters Syntax requests.nameofmethod(parameters) Background and Preparation The Requests library has several options for GET. Part … Read more

Python Requests Library – Your First HTTP Request in Python

This is the first part of a 3-part series on the Python request library: Python Requests Library – Your First HTTP Request in Python Python Requests Library – Understanding requests.get() Parameters Python Requests Library – Exception Handling & Advanced request.get() Parameters Syntax Background There are many libraries around that make HTTP requests. However, the requests … Read more

How to Get an HTML Page from a URL in Python?

This tutorial shows you how to perform simple HTTP get requests to get an HTML page from a given URL in Python! Problem Formulation Given a URL as a string. How to extract the HTML from the given URL and store the result in a Python string variable? Example: Say, you want to accomplish the … Read more

Python HTML Get Parameter

Problem Formulation: How to perform an HTTP get call in Python? Solution: Use Python’s requests library. This is semantically equivalent to issuing an HTTP get call: http://example.com?param_1=value_1&param_2=value_2 In fact, you can obtain this exact URL by using the r.url attribute on the request object: You can find the text response by using the r.text attribute … Read more