Python: REST

Imports

• requests: for HTTP requests.
• json: for manipulating JSON.
• urllib.parse?

GET

import requests
response = requests.get('https://google.com/')
print(response)
>> <Response [200]>

print(response.status_code)
>>> 200

print(response.text)

• Prints the JSON reply as text.

if response:
  print('Request is successful.')
else:
  print('Request returned an error.')

• Will evaluate to True if the status code was between 200 and 400, and False otherwise.

JSON Responses

• The requests library has a .json() method that converts JSON to a Python object.

print(response.json())