Making HTTP Requests in Python Without a Proxy

When making HTTP requests in Python, you may not always need to use a proxy. The popular requests library provides a simple way to make requests directly without configuring a proxy.

Why Make Requests Without a Proxy

Some reasons you may want to make requests without a proxy:

In these cases, the requests library makes it very easy.

Making Simple GET Requests

Here is how to make a basic GET request without a proxy using requests:

import requests

response = requests.get('https://api.example.com/items')
print(response.status_code)
print(response.json())

We simply call requests.get() with the URL to make the GET request.

Customizing the Requests

Additional headers, URL parameters, data, and other options can be specified to customize requests:

import requests

headers = {'Authorization': 'token1234'}
params = {'category': 'electronics'}

response = requests.get('https://api.example.com/items', 
                        headers=headers, params=params)

This adds an authorization header and category parameter to the request.

Handling Timeouts

You can tell requests to timeout if an API is slow to respond:

requests.get('https://api.example.com/slow', timeout=3.0)

This will error after 3 seconds if no response.

So in summary, the requests library provides a very simple way to make HTTP requests in Python without dealing with proxies. Customize the requests to your API as needed!