DevNet - Python module Urllib3 - user-friendly HTTP client

 Urllib3 is a HTTP client for python it can grab data, post data, stream data, work with JSON as well as use redirects.

Urllib3 can be installed using pip:

    python -m pip install urllib3

    or via GitHub:

    git clone git://github.com/urllib3/urllib3.git

    python setup.py install

code example:

 cat test_urllib 

#!/usr/bin/env python3

"""urllib3 module test"""

import urllib3

http = urllib3.PoolManager()

URL = 'http://dub-ne.blogspot.com'

resp = http.request('GET', URL)

print(resp.status)

- this example create GET request to www.dub-ne.blogspot.com and prints the return code of response, output:

 

python test_urllib 

200

- code 200 ("OK") indicates that the request has succeeded.

HTTP response code groups:

• Informational responses (100–199)
• Successful responses (200–299)
• Redirects (300–399)
• Client errors (400–499)
• Server errors (500–599)

Urllib3 features:

• Thread safety.
• Connection pooling.
• Client-side SSL/TLS verification.
• File uploads with multipart encoding.
• Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
• Support for gzip, deflate, and brotli encoding.
• Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
• 100% test coverage.

Documentation: urllib3.readthedocs.io