I am using the requests library to query the Diffbot API to get contents of an article from a web page url. When I visit a request URL that I create in my browser, it returns a JSON object with the text in Unicode (right?) for example (I shortended the text somewhat): {“icon”:”http://mexico.…
Tag: python-requests
Measure website load time with Python requests
I’m trying to build a tool for testing the delay of my internet connection, more specifically web site load times. I thought of using the python requests module for the loading part. Problem is, it’s got no built-in functionality to measure the time it took to get the full response. For this I tho…
Asynchronous Requests with Python requests
I tried the sample provided within the documentation of the requests library for python. With async.map(rs), I get the response codes, but I want to get the content of each page requested. This, for example, does not work: Answer Note The below answer is not applicable to requests v0.13.0+. The asynchronous f…
Proxies with Python ‘Requests’ module
Just a short, simple one about the excellent Requests module for Python. I can’t seem to find in the documentation what the variable ‘proxies’ should contain. When I send it a dict with a standard “IP:PORT” value it rejected it asking for 2 values. So, I guess (because this doesn…