Advertisement
Published in:
2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
2. The Web Speaks HTTP
Authors : Seppe vanden Broucke, Bart Baesens
Published in: Practical Web Scraping for Data Science
Publisher: Apress
Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.
Select sections of text to find matching patents with Artificial Intelligence. powered by
Select sections of text to find additional relevant content using AI-assisted search. powered by
Abstract
In this chapter, we introduce one of the core building blocks that makes up the web: the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), after having provided a brief introduction to computer networks in general. We then introduce the Python requests library, which we’ll use to perform HTTP requests and effectively start retrieving websites with Python. The chapter closes with a section on using parameters in URLs.