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Requests
General Information
The requests library is a http library that allows you to interact with web servers via Python.
Checklist
- Python 2 or 3
Install
Requests can be installed via pip
pip install requests
Import
import requests
Using Requests
Requests supports the following http request types.
my_site = "http://www.mysite.org/" # GET response = request.get(my_site) # POST response = request.post(my_site) # PUT response = request.put(my_site) # DELETE response = request.delete(my_site) # HEAD response = request.head(my_site) # OPTIONS response = request.options(my_site)