response.encoding – Python requests Read Courses Practice Improve Improve Improve Like Article Like Save Article Save Report issue Report Python requests are generally used to fetch the content from a particular resource URI. Whenever we make a request to a specified URI through Python, it returns a response object. Now, this response object would be used to access certain features such as content, headers, etc. This article revolves around how to check the response.encoding out of a response object. response.encoding returns the encoding used to decode response.content. Check more about encoding here – Python Strings encode() method How to use response.encoding using Python requests? To illustrate use of response.encoding, let’s ping API of Github. To run this script, you need to have Python and requests installed on your PC. Prerequisites – Download and Install Python 3 Latest Version How to install requests in Python – For windows, linux, mac Example code – # import requests module import requests # Making a get request response = requests.get('https://api.github.com') # print response print(response) # print encoding of response print(response.encoding) Example Implementation – Save above file as request.py and run using Python request.py Output – Check that utf-8 at the start of the output, it shows that string is encoded and decoded using “utf-8”. Advanced Concepts There are many libraries to make an HTTP request in Python, which are httplib, urllib, httplib2, treq, etc., but requests is the one of the best with cool features. If any attribute of requests shows NULL, check the status code using below attribute. requests.status_code If status_code doesn’t lie in range of 200-29. You probably need to check method begin used for making a request + the url you are requesting for resources. Don't miss your chance to ride the wave of the data revolution! Every industry is scaling new heights by tapping into the power of data. Sharpen your skills, become a part of the hottest trend in the 21st century.Dive into the future of technology - explore the Complete Machine Learning and Data Science Program by GeeksforGeeks and stay ahead of the curve. Commit to GfG's Three-90 Challenge! Purchase a course, complete 90% in 90 days, and save 90% cost click here to explore. Last Updated : 01 Mar, 2020 Like Article Save Article Previous response.headers - Python requests Next response.elapsed - Python requests Share your thoughts in the comments Add Your Comment Please Login to comment... Similar Reads GET and POST Requests in GraphQL API using Python requests response.headers - Python requests response.elapsed - Python requests response.close() - Python requests response.content - Python requests response.cookies - Python requests response.history - Python requests response.is_permanent_redirect - Python requests response.is_redirect - Python requests response.iter_content() - Python requests Complete Tutorials Python API Tutorial: Getting Started with APIs Advanced Python Tutorials Python Automation Tutorial OpenAI Python API - Complete Guide Pandas AI: The Generative AI Python Library Like N NaveenArora Follow Article Tags : Python-requests Python Practice Tags : python Additional Information Vote for difficulty : Easy Normal Medium Hard Expert
