The requests module

The requests module allows its users to make and send HTTP request methods. In the applications that we will be considering, it is mainly used to make contact with the server of the web pages we want to extract data from and obtain the response for the server.

Note

According to the official documentation of the module, the use of Python 3 is highly recommended over Python 2 for requests.

To install the module on your computer, run the following:

pip install requests

You should use this code if you are using pip as your package manager. If, however, you are using Anaconda instead, simply use the following:

conda install requests

These commands should install requests and any other required dependencies (idna, certifi, urllib3, and so on) for you if your system does not have those already. After this, run import requests in a Python interpreter to confirm that the module has been installed successfully.

Making a request in Python

Let's look at an example usage of the module. If...