This directory contains projects focused on understanding and implementing network-related tasks in Python using the urllib and requests libraries. The tasks cover concepts such as making HTTP requests, handling HTTP responses, and working with JSON data.
- HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using urllib Package
- Quickstart with Requests package
- Requests package
- How to fetch internet resources with the Python package
urllib - How to decode
urllibbody response - How to use the Python package
requests#requestsiswaysimplerthanurllib - How to make HTTP
GETrequest - How to make HTTP
POST/PUT/etc. request - How to fetch JSON resources
- How to manipulate data from an external service
| Task | File | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0. What's my status? #0 | 0-hbtn_status.py | Write a Python script that fetches https://alx-intranet.hbtn.io/status using urllib and displays the response. |
| 1. Response header value #0 | 1-hbtn_header.py | Write a Python script that takes in a URL, sends a request to the URL, and displays the value of the X-Request-Id variable found in the header of the response. |
| 2. POST an email #0 | 2-post_email.py | Write a Python script that takes in a URL and an email, sends a POST request to the passed URL with the email as a parameter, and displays the body of the response. |
| 3. Error code #0 | 3-error_code.py | Write a Python script that takes in a URL, sends a request to the URL, and displays the body of the response. If an HTTP error occurs, print the error code. |
| 4. What's my status? #1 | 4-hbtn_status.py | Write a Python script that fetches https://alx-intranet.hbtn.io/status using requests and displays the response. |
| 5. Response header value #1 | 5-hbtn_header.py | Write a Python script that takes in a URL, sends a request to the URL, and displays the value of the X-Request-Id variable found in the header of the response using requests. |
| 6. POST an email #1 | 6-post_email.py | Write a Python script that takes in a URL and an email, sends a POST request to the passed URL with the email as a parameter, and displays the body of the response using requests. |
| 7. Error code #1 | 7-error_code.py | Write a Python script that takes in a URL, sends a request to the URL, and displays the body of the response. If an HTTP error occurs, print the error code using requests. |
| 8. Search API | 8-json_api.py | Write a Python script that takes in a letter and sends a POST request to http://0.0.0.0:5000/search_user with the letter as a parameter. |
| 9. My GitHub! | 10-my_github.py | Write a Python script that takes your GitHub credentials (username and password) and uses the GitHub API to display your id. |
| 10. Time for an interview! | 100-github_commits.py | Write a Python script that lists the 10 most recent commits of a repository by a user using the GitHub API. |