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Python 101: Interactively learn how to program with Python 3

What is a 'requests' package?

Discover how to use the Python requests package as a simpler alternative to urllib for making HTTP requests. Learn to send GET, POST, and other request types, retrieve web page content, access headers, cookies, and JSON responses to build practical web interaction skills.

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The requests package is a more Pythonic replacement for Python’s own urllib. You will find that requests package’s API is quite a bit simpler to work with. You can install the requests library by using pip or easy_install or from source.

Using requests

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