0 Requests.md

Requests library

Install and read the quick tutorial of Requests: http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/

requests_long.py

import codecs
import requests
from utils import write_json

# download a file and save

r = requests.get('http://pylvax.github.io')

if r.ok:
    pylvax_html = r.text

    with codecs.open('pylvax.html', 'w', encoding='utf8') as f:
        f.write(pylvax_html)


# download and parse JSON

url_json = 'http://paste.ee/r/laxjw'

r = requests.get(url_json)

if r.ok:
    # save r.text -> str -> json.loads -> data
    # json_str = r.text
    # json_data = json.loads(json_str)

    # requests .json()
    json_rdata = r.json()

    write_json('cc.json', json_rdata)

requests_short.py

import requests
from utils import write_json

r = requests.get('http://paste.ee/r/laxjw')
if r.ok:
    write_json('cc.json', r.json())