Day 4: Python requests

Automate sending requests

Why do they do Captchas to see whether you’re a bot? Using requests library, you can automate the process of sending requests to web-servers. Doesn’t that sound like a bot?

Theory

Python requests

Objective: Learn to send requests using python requests library.

HTTP headers Read here

Python requests Read here

Practice

Hands-On Exercise

Fetch some webpages using requests library