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Python requests are generally used to fetch the content from a particular resource URI. Whenever we make a request to a specified URI through Python, it returns a response object. Now, this response object would be used to access certain features such as content, headers, etc. This article revolves around how to check the response.content out of a response object. response.content returns the content of the response, in bytes. Basically, it refers to Binary Response content.
 

How to use response.content using Python requests?

To illustrate use of response.content, let’s ping API of Github. To run this script, you need to have Python and requests installed on your PC.
 

Prerequisites –

Example code –
 

Python3




import requests
 
# Making a get request
response = requests.get('https://api.github.com')
 
# printing request content
print(response.content)


Example Implementation –

Save above file as request.py and run using 
 

Python request.py

Output –

response.content-Python-requests

Check that b’ at the start of output, it means the reference to a bytes object.
 

Advanced Concepts

There are many libraries to make an HTTP request in Python, which are httplib, urllib, httplib2 , treq, etc., but requests is the one of the best with cool features. If any attribute of requests shows NULL, check the status code using below attribute. 
 

requests.status_code

If status_code doesn’t lie in range of 200-29. You probably need to check method begin used for making a request + the url you are requesting for resources.
 


Last Updated : 26 Jul, 2021
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