Stories from the Web Crawling trenches in customizing requests

Making HTTP Requests in Ruby with the httpx Gem

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 5, 2024

The httpx gem provides a simple and flexible way to make HTTP requests in Ruby, with features like persistent connections and timeouts. It's great for APIs, web scraping, and tasks involving HTTP requests.

Making HTTP Requests in Python Without a Proxy

Author: Mohan Ganesan

Date: Feb 3, 2024

Make HTTP requests in Python without a proxy using the requests library. Customize requests with headers, parameters, and handle timeouts.

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