/bbc-challenge

The task is to write a program that makes http (and https) requests to specified URLs and to report on certain properties of the responses it receives.

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bbc-challenge

The task is to write a program that makes http (and https) requests to specified URLs and to report on certain properties of the responses it receives.

Running the script:

The version of python used in this project is 3.5.0

Python should come pre-installed on Linux and Mac, but you need at least version 3.
You can check your version in your terminal with python --version
If you don't have python 3 you will need to install it:

How to Install Latest Python On Mac
How to Install Latest Python On Linux
How to Install Latest Python on Windows

If you have the correct version of Python:

  • Extract .tar archive
  • Install module dependencies (if neccesary).. i.e:
pip install requests
pip install json

Then to run:

Navigate to the directory bbc-challenge and type:
python main.py

Note: In Windows command prompt you may see this error (or something like it):

ERROR: "'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u2013' in position 110906: character maps to "

To fix that just type in the following:

chcp 65001
set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8