Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in HTTP responses

Why use Python requests?

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 20, 2024

The Requests library is a popular tool for Python developers to make HTTP requests and APIs easier. It saves time compared to urllib module and provides features like JSON decoding and SSL verification. Requests is recommended for web API calls, web scraping, and more.

Simplifying URL Responses with urllib's parse_http_list

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 8, 2024

The urllib library in Python provides tools for working with URLs and HTTP responses. parse_http_list() simplifies parsing query parameters and response headers.

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