Python Requests get() Method

The Python Requests get() method is used to send an HTTP GET request to a specified URL. This method retrieves data from the specified server endpoint.

This method can accept optional parameters such as params for query parameters, headers for custom headers, timeout for request timeout and auth for authentication.

This method returns a Response object containing the server's response data, status code, headers and more. It is commonly used for fetching data from APIs or web pages.

Syntax

Following is the syntax and parameters of Python Requests get() method −

requests.get(url, params=None, **kwargs)

Parameters

Below are the parameters of the Python Requests get() method −

• url: This is the url of the resource we want to fetch.
• params(dict or bytes, optional): Dictionary or bytes to be sent in the query string for the request.
• kwargs(optional): Optional arguments that can be passed including headers, cookies, authentication etc.

Return value

This method returns a Response object.

Example 1

Following is the basic example which involves sending a request to a specified URL and handling the response with the help of python requests get() method −

import requests

response = requests.get('https://www.tutorialspoint.com')
print(response.url)  

Output

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/

Example 2

The 'params' parameter of get() method is used to get params of the url. This parameter accepts a dictionary of key-value pairs that will be encoded as query parameters in the URL. Here is the example −

import requests
params = {'q': 'python requests', 'sort': 'relevance'}
response = requests.get('https://www.tutorialspoint.com', params=params)
print(response.url)

Output

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/?q=python+requests&sort=relevance

Example 3

The requests module supports several types of authentication by specifying the parameter 'auth' in the get() method. The following is the basic example of the authenticaton −

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

# Define the URL
url = 'https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass'

# Define the credentials
username = 'user'
password = 'pass'

# Send the GET request with Basic Authentication
response = requests.get(url, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(username, password))

# Print the response status code
print(response.status_code)

# Print the response content
print(response.text)

Output

200
{
  "authenticated": true,
  "user": "user"
}