requestwrapper

A simple wrapper for the Python requests package

Motivation

Common use cases when dealing with requests are:

• handling response errors
• repeating a request until succesfull response
• executing multiple requests
• saving response (html, pdf) to disk

Requestwrapper implements simple methods to perform such tasks without having to write your own code.

Features

• Parameterize HTTP method using the method-argument
• Handle HTTP errors (status_code>299) by returning the raw response instead of json
• Retry failed requests n-times
• Print request-response to console
• Save response content to disk

Prerequisites

1. the requests module (https://pypi.org/project/requests/)

Installing

Hosted on PyPI: (https://pypi.org/project/requestwrapper/) With pip: pip install requestwrapper

Usage

import requestwrapper.Request
#initialize the Request object
Request0=requestwrapper.Request.Request()

# workhorse function: send_request
res=Request0.send_request(url='https://nu.nl',method='GET')

# save response content to disk
Request0.save_response('nu.txt')

Examples

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