Performing HTTP requests in Python using requests
Now that you've got your head and hands around making HTTP requests using the urllib package, you're going to figure out how to do the same using the higher-level requests library. You'll once again be pinging DataCamp servers for their "http://www.datacamp.com/teach/documentation" page.
Note that unlike in the previous exercises using urllib, you don't have to close the connection when using requests!
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate Importing Data in Python
Exercise instructions
- Import the package
requests. - Assign the URL of interest to the variable
url. - Package the request to the URL, send the request and catch the response with a single function
requests.get(), assigning the response to the variabler. - Use the
textattribute of the objectrto return the HTML of the webpage as a string; store the result in a variabletext. - Hit submit to print the HTML of the webpage.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import package
# Specify the url: url
# Packages the request, send the request and catch the response: r
# Extract the response: text
# Print the html
print(text)