what does get function in requests do code example

Example 1: get requests python

import requests

r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))

print r.status_code
print r.headers['content-type']

Example 2: python requests get

# pip install requests
import requests
req = requests.get('<url here>', 'html.parser')
print(req.text)