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Python Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Automation Cookbook Explore the world of automation using Python recipes that will enhance your skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133806
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaime Buelta Jaime Buelta
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let Us Begin Our Automation Journey FREE CHAPTER 2. Automating Tasks Made Easy 3. Building Your First Web Scraping Application 4. Searching and Reading Local Files 5. Generating Fantastic Reports 6. Fun with Spreadsheets 7. Developing Stunning Graphs 8. Dealing with Communication Channels 9. Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign? 10. Debugging Techniques 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Downloading web pages

The basic ability to download a web page involves making an HTTP GET request against a URL. This is the basic operation of any web browser. Let's quickly recap the different parts of this operation:

  1. Using the HTTP protocol.
  2. Using the GET method, which is the most common HTTP method. We'll see more in the Accessing web APIs recipe.
  3. URL describing the full address of the page, including the server and the path.

That request will be processed by the server and a response will be sent back. This response will contain a status code, typically 200 if everything went fine, and a body with the result, which will normally be text with an HTML page.

Most of this is handled automatically by the HTTP client used to perform the request. We'll see in this recipe how to make a simple request to obtain a web page.

HTTP requests and responses can also contain...
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