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

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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