response.headers

Python requests are generally used to fetch the content from a particular resource URI. Whenever we make a request to a specified URI through Python, it returns a response object. Now, this response object would be used to access certain features such as content, headers, etc. This article revolves around how to check the

response.headers

out of a response object.

response.headers

returns a dictionary of response headers. To check more about headers, visit –Different HTTP Headers

How to use response.headers using Python requests?

To illustrate use of response.headers, let’s ping API of Github. To run this script, you need to have Python and requests installed on your PC.

Prerequisites –

Example code –

Python3

# import requests moduleimportrequests# Making a get requestresponse =requests.get('https://api.github.com')# print responseprint(response)# print headers of responseprint(response.headers)

Example Implementation –

Save above file as

request.py

and run usingPython request.py

Output –

Check that

headers

at the start of the output, it shows the different headers. Headers are used for different purposes such as Authentication/ Passing and retrieving data from the server, etc.

Advanced Concepts

There are many libraries to make an HTTP request in Python, which arehttplib

,urllib

,httplib2

,treq

, etc., butrequests

is the one of the best with cool features. If any attribute of requests shows NULL, check the status code using below attribute.response.status_code

If status_code doesn’t lie in range of 200-29. You probably need to check method begin used for making a request + the url you are requesting for resources.

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