requests.get() - requests

requests.get(url) is used to fetch a webpage. It makes a HTTP GET Request method to the specified URL.

Syntax

r=requests.get(URL)

Example

import requests
url="https://wikidev.in"
r=requests.get(url)
# r is response 
#r.text gives HTML of the page

Output / Return Value

Response object.

Limitations

Alternatives / See Also

Reference

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/quickstart/