- Import the requests module:
>>> import requests
- Make a request to the URL, which will take a second or two:
>>> url = 'http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/sample.html'
>>> response = requests.get(url)
- Check the returned object status code:
>>> response.status_code
200
- Check the content of the result:
>>> response.text
'<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
...
FULL BODY
...
<!-- close the <html> begun above -->
'
- Check the ongoing and returned headers:
>>> response.request.headers
{'User-Agent': 'python-requests/2.18.4', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate', 'Accept': '*/*', 'Connection': 'keep-alive'}
>>> response.headers
{'Date': 'Fri, 25 May 2018 21:51:47 GMT', 'Server': 'Apache', 'Last-Modified': 'Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:52:25 GMT', 'Accept-Ranges': 'bytes', 'Vary': 'Accept-Encoding,User-Agent', 'Content-Encoding': 'gzip', 'Content-Length': '8664', 'Keep-Alive': 'timeout=15, max=85', 'Connection': 'Keep-Alive', 'Content-Type': 'text/html', 'Set-Cookie': 'BIGipServer~CUIT~www.columbia.edu-80-pool=1764244352.20480.0000; expires=Sat, 26-May-2018 03:51:47 GMT; path=/; Httponly'}
