urllib2 Request code example

Example 1: python get html from url

import requests

url = requests.get("http://google.com")
htmltext = url.text

Example 2: urllib.request headers

try:
    from urllib.request import Request, urlopen  # Python 3
except ImportError:
    from urllib2 import Request, urlopen  # Python 2

req = Request('http://api.company.com/items/details?country=US&language=en')
req.add_header('apikey', 'xxx')
content = urlopen(req).read()

print(content)

Example 3: with urllib.request.urlopen("https://

import urllib.request

req = urllib.request.Request('http://www.voidspace.org.uk')
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
   the_page = response.read()