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Python Requests Playbook

Knowing how to programmatically interact with APIs is crucial in the connected world of today. This course will teach you how to use the requests library to work with all kinds of HTTP endpoints.

Mateo Prigl - Pluralsight course - Python Requests Playbook
by Mateo Prigl

What you'll learn

Modern applications require a lot of data from multiple online sources. . In this course, Python Requests Playbook, you’ll learn to utilize the requests library to make HTTP requests. First, you’ll explore how to make GET requests and analyze response objects. Next, you’ll discover how to send data to the server with other HTTP methods like POST and how to work with cookies, sessions and headers. Finally, you’ll learn how to authenticate your requests and handle redirects and timeouts. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of using the requests library needed to make HTTP requests to various HTTP compliant services.

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About the author

Mateo Prigl - Pluralsight course - Python Requests Playbook
Mateo Prigl

Mateo is currently a full stack web developer working for a company that has clients from Europe and North America. His niche in programming was mostly web oriented, while freelancing, working on small startups and companies that require his services. Go(lang), Elixir, Ruby and C are his favorite languages and also the ones he’s mostly working with other then PHP in day to day work. He has a big passion for learning and teaching what he knows the best. His big interests recently have been the fields of DevOps, Linux, functional programming and machine learning.

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