What is the fastest way to do a HTTP GET in a Python program?
To start the HTTP GET method in python, any of the following modules can be used:
You can install all of the above module using pip package manager and the easiest module is the request module.
The example in this blog post shows how the requests module can be used.
Install requests
You can use pip to install the module
pip install requests
IF you use PyCharm, you can install it in project settings.
In the console it outputs something like this:
Collecting requests
Downloading requests-2.23.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (58 kB)
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Collecting certifi>=2017.4.17
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Collecting urllib3!=1.25.0,!=1.25.1,<1.26,>=1.21.1
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Collecting chardet<4,>=3.0.2
Using cached chardet-3.0.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (133 kB)
Collecting idna<3,>=2.5
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Installing collected packages: certifi, urllib3, chardet, idna, requests
Successfully installed certifi-2019.11.28 chardet-3.0.4 idna-2.9 requests-2.23.0 urllib3-1.25.8
Requests HTTP GET method example
Import the requests module, set the url and do a requests.get() call.
This returns a response object, response.text contains the data.
>>> import requests
>>> url = "https://dev.to"
>>> response = requests.get(url=url)
>>> print(response)
<Response [200]>
>>> print(response.text)
This outputs:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
etc
If your app uses a GUI module like PyQt, then you'll want to do HTTP requests in another thread (not on the GUI thread).
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