Requests
The requests module is the de facto standard for sending HTTP requests in Python.
It abstracts the complexities of making requests behind a beautiful, simple API so that you can focus on interacting with services and consuming data in your application.
The HTTP request returns a Response Object with all the response data (content, encoding, status, etc).
Installation
Let’s begin by installing the requests module. To do so, run the following command in the terminal:
pip install requests
Once requests is installed, you can use it in your program. Importing requests looks like this:
import requests
Requests
- requests.delete()
- Makes a delete request to a web server; it returns a response object.
- requests.get()
- Makes a get request to a web server; it returns a response object.
- requests.head()
- Makes a head request to a web server; it returns a response object.
- requests.post()
- Makes a post request to a web server; it returns a response object.
- requests.put()
- Makes a put request to a web server; it returns a response object.
- requests.request()
- Makes seven main kinds of request to a web server: get, options, head, post, put, patch, and delete; it can also handle custom HTTP verbs if needed, and returns a response object.