response.reason – Python requests

response.reason returns a text corresponding to the status code. for example, OK for 200, Not Found for 404. 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.reason out of a response object.

How to use response.reason using Python requests?

To illustrate use of response.reason, let’s ping github.com and geeksforgeeks.org. To run this script, you need to have Python and requests installed on your PC.

Prerequisites –

• Download and Install Python 3 Latest Version
• How to install requests in Python – For windows, linux, mac

Example code –

# import requests module
import requests

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

# print response
print(response)

# print the reason
print(response.reason)

# ping an incorrect url
response = requests.get('https://geeksforgeeks.org / naveen/')

# print response
print(response)

# print the reason now
print(response.reason)

Example Implementation –

Save above file as request.py and run using

Python request.py

Output –

Check that OK and Not Found, it shows the text corresponding to a particular status_code.

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.