Web requests

Throughout the chapters of this book, the requests Python library has been used to establish communication between the code and the web. Plenty of Python libraries can be found at https://pypi.org/ if we search for ones similar to requests.

The following subsections list some Python libraries and technologies and provide brief introductions to them.

pycurl

The pycurl Python library (http://pycurl.io/) is a wrapper on top of the popular libcurl library. libcurl is one of the earliest Python libraries that was used to communicate with websites on the internet, based on the curl tool (also known as cURL).

curl (https://curl.se/) is a command-line tool that is used to connect and transfer data over the web. curl is the basis of network communication; it’s a core implementation that is used with the help of a wrapper across different operating systems (OSs), browsers, and machines that communicate with the internet. The curl command is machine-independent...