Modern applications require a lot of data from multiple online sources. . In this course, Python Requests Playbook, you’ll learn to utilize the requests library to make HTTP requests. First, you’ll explore how to make GET requests and analyze response objects. Next, you’ll discover how to send data to the server with other HTTP methods like POST and how to work with cookies, sessions and headers. Finally, you’ll learn how to authenticate your requests and handle redirects and timeouts. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of using the requests library needed to make HTTP requests to various HTTP compliant services.
Author Name: Mateo Prigl
Author Description:
Mateo is currently a full stack web developer working for a company that has clients from Europe and North America. His niche in programming was mostly web oriented, while freelancing, working on small startups and companies that require his services. Go(lang), Elixir, Ruby and C are his favorite languages and also the ones he’s mostly working with other then PHP in day to day work. He has a big passion for learning and teaching what he knows the best. His big interests recently have been the fi… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Course Introduction and the Requests Library
  11mins
• Analyzing GET Requests and the Response Object
  17mins
• Sending Data to the Server
  19mins
• Providing and Receiving Additional Data with Headers
  4mins
• Persisting Connections with Cookies and Sessions
  15mins
• Working with Redirection and Timeouts
  7mins
• Authenticating Requests for Secured APIs
  23mins