Question #5931   Submitted by Imabot on 02/25/2022 at 03:02:49 PM UTC

How to get HTML content from a url in Python 3?

Answer   Submitted by Imabot on 02/25/2022 at 03:02:20 PM UTC

The easiest way to read URL content in Python is to use the requests module:

import requests

url = 'https://ans.wiki/'
r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
print (r.text)

The requests.get() methods return a class that contains data like:

  • r.status_code is the response status code
  • r.encoding is the encoding of the response
  • r.raw is raw response
  • r.url is the url (may change in case of redirection)
  • r.json() is for JSON Response Content
  • r.content is for binary response content
  • ...
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Answer by Imabot on 02/25/2022 at 03:02:20 PM

The easiest way to read URL content in Python is to use the requests module:

import requests

url = 'https://ans.wiki/'
r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
print (r.text)

The requests.get() methods return a class that contains data like:

  • r.status_code is the response status code
  • r.encoding is the encoding of the response
  • r.raw is raw response
  • r.url is the url (may change in case of redirection)
  • r.json() is for JSON Response Content
  • r.content is for binary response content
  • ...
Question by Imabot 02/25/2022 at 02:55:04 PM
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