Printing HTTP request results in Python using urllib
You have just packaged and sent a GET request to "https://campus.datacamp.com/courses/1606/4135?ex=2" and then caught the response. You saw that such a response is a http.client.HTTPResponse object. The question remains: what can you do with this response?
Well, as it came from an HTML page, you could read it to extract the HTML and, in fact, such a http.client.HTTPResponse object has an associated read() method. In this exercise, you'll build on your previous great work to extract the response and print the HTML.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Importing Data in Python
Exercise instructions
- Send the request and catch the response in the variable
responsewith the functionurlopen(), as in the previous exercise. - Extract the response using the
read()method and store the result in the variablehtml. - Print the string
html. - Hit submit to perform all of the above and to close the response: be tidy!
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import packages
from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
# Specify the url
url = "https://campus.datacamp.com/courses/1606/4135?ex=2"
# This packages the request
request = Request(url)
# Sends the request and catches the response: response
# Extract the response: html
# Print the html
# Be polite and close the response!
response.close()