urlfetch documentation

urlfetch is a simple, lightweight and easy to use HTTP client for Python. It is distributed as a single file module and has no depencencies other than the Python Standard Library.

Getting Started

Install

$ pip install urlfetch

OR grab the latest source from github ifduyue/urlfetch:

$ git clone git://github.com/ifduyue/urlfetch.git
$ cd urlfetch
$ python setup.py install

Usage

>>> import urlfetch
>>> r = urlfetch.get("http://docs.python.org/")
>>> r.status, r.reason
(200, 'OK')
>>> r.getheader('content-type')
'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
>>> r.getheader('Content-Type')
'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
>>> r.content
...

License

Code and documentation are available according to the BSD 2-clause License:

Copyright (c) 2012-2018, Yue Du
All rights reserved.

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