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Exercise

Performing HTTP requests in Python using urllib

Now that you know the basics behind HTTP GET requests, it's time to perform some of your own. In this interactive exercise, you will ping our very own DataCamp servers to perform a GET request to extract information from the first coding exercise of this course, "https://campus.datacamp.com/courses/1606/4135?ex=2".

In the next exercise, you'll extract the HTML itself. Right now, however, you are going to package and send the request and then catch the response.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Import the functions urlopen and Request from the subpackage urllib.request.
  • Package the request to the url "https://campus.datacamp.com/courses/1606/4135?ex=2" using the function Request() and assign it to request.
  • Send the request and catch the response in the variable response with the function urlopen().
  • Run the rest of the code to see the datatype of response and to close the connection!