How to get the raw content of a response in requests with Python?
If you are using a requests.get
call to obtain your HTTP response, you can use the raw
attribute of the response. Here is the code from the requests
docs.
>>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/timeline.json', stream=True)>>> r.raw<requests.packages.urllib3.response.HTTPResponse object at 0x101194810>>>> r.raw.read(10)'\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x03'
After requests.get()
, you can use r.content
to extract the raw Byte-type content.
r = requests.get('https://yourweb.com', stream=True)r.content
To add to @brien answer, as stated in the docs:
In general, however, you should use a pattern like this to save what is being streamed to a file:
with open(filename, 'wb') as fd: for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=128): fd.write(chunk)
Using Response.iter_content will handle a lot of what you would otherwise have to handle when using Response.raw directly. When streaming a download, the above is the preferred and recommended way to retrieve the content. Note that chunk_size can be freely adjusted to a number that may better fit your use cases.
That pattern not only has the advantages described above, but is also a good to fetch data in environments with limited memory.