try:
from urllib.request import Request, urlopen # Python 3
except ImportError:
from urllib2 import Request, urlopen # Python 2
req = Request('http://api.company.com/items/details?country=US&language=en')
req.add_header('apikey', 'xxx')
content = urlopen(req).read()
print(content)import urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request('http://www.voidspace.org.uk')
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
the_page = response.read()
>>> import urllib.request
>>> #urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filename=None, reporthook=None, data=None)
#Copy a network object denoted by a URL to a local file
>>> local_filename, headers = urllib.request.urlretrieve('http://python.org/')
>>> html = open(local_filename)
>>> html.close()
#In Python 3.x, the urlretrieve function is located in the urllib.request module:
from urllib.request import urlretrieve