So I recently stumbled upon this great library for handling HTTP requests in Python; found here .
I love working with it, but I can't figure out how to add headers to my get requests. Help?
4 Answers
According to the API, the headers can all be passed in with requests.get():
import requests
r=requests.get("", headers={"Content-Type":"text"})
Seems pretty straightforward, according to the docs on the page you linked (emphasis mine).
requests.get(url, params=None, headers=None, cookies=None, auth=None, timeout=None)
Sends a GET request. Returns
Responseobject.Parameters:
- url – URL for the new
Requestobject.- params – (optional) Dictionary of GET Parameters to send with the
Request.- headers – (optional) Dictionary of HTTP Headers to send with the
Request.- cookies – (optional) CookieJar object to send with the
Request.- auth – (optional) AuthObject to enable Basic HTTP Auth.
- timeout – (optional) Float describing the timeout of the request.
This answer taught me that you can set headers for an entire session:
s = requests.Session()
s.auth = ('user', 'pass')
s.headers.update({'x-test': 'true'})
# both 'x-test' and 'x-test2' are sent
s.get(' headers={'x-test2': 'true'})
Go to
copy attributes - typically 'Accept-Language' and 'User-Agent'.
Wrap them in the dictionary:
headers = { 'Accept-Language' : content-copied-from-myhttpheader, 'User-Agent':content-copied-from-myhttpheader}pass headers in your request
requests.get(url=your_url,headers=headers)
