requests 模块：HTTP for Human

import requests

Python 标准库中的 urllib2 模块提供了你所需要的大多数 HTTP 功能，但是它的 API 不是特别方便使用。

requests 模块号称 HTTP for Human，它可以这样使用：

r = requests.get("http://httpbin.org/get")
r = requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', data = {'key':'value'})
r = requests.put("http://httpbin.org/put")
r = requests.delete("http://httpbin.org/delete")
r = requests.head("http://httpbin.org/get")
r = requests.options("http://httpbin.org/get")

传入 URL 参数

假如我们想访问 httpbin.org/get?key=val，我们可以使用 params 传入这些参数：

payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}
r = requests.get("http://httpbin.org/get", params=payload)

查看 url ：

print(r.url)

http://httpbin.org/get?key2=value2&key1=value1

读取响应内容

Requests 会自动解码来自服务器的内容。大多数 unicode 字符集都能被无缝地解码。

r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json')

print r.text

{"message":"Hello there, wayfaring stranger. If you’re reading this then you probably didn’t see our blog post a couple of years back announcing that this API would go away: http://git.io/17AROg Fear not, you should be able to get what you need from the shiny new Events API instead.","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/#list-public-events"}

查看文字编码：

r.encoding

'utf-8'

每次改变文字编码，text 的内容也随之变化：

r.encoding = "ISO-8859-1"

r.text

u'{"message":"Hello there, wayfaring stranger. If you\xe2\x80\x99re reading this then you probably didn\xe2\x80\x99t see our blog post a couple of years back announcing that this API would go away: http://git.io/17AROg Fear not, you should be able to get what you need from the shiny new Events API instead.","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/#list-public-events"}'

Requests 中也有一个内置的 JSON 解码器处理 JSON 数据：

r.json()

{u'documentation_url': u'https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/events/#list-public-events',
 u'message': u'Hello there, wayfaring stranger. If you\xe2\x80\x99re reading this then you probably didn\xe2\x80\x99t see our blog post a couple of years back announcing that this API would go away: http://git.io/17AROg Fear not, you should be able to get what you need from the shiny new Events API instead.'}

如果 JSON 解码失败， r.json 就会抛出一个异常。

响应状态码

r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')

r.status_code

407

响应头

r.headers['Content-Type']

'text/html'