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"For retrieving data from the Internet you can use _requests_ library. There are other libraries such as _urllib_ but we will focus on _requests_ as it simplifies a lot of tasks.\n",
"\n",
"\n",
"__requests__ provide multiple functions, here we will look at _get_ function for GET request. \n"
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"import requests \n",
"\n",
"url = requests.get(\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States\")"
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"__url__ is an object and contains some attributes such as status code, text, apparent_encoding, encoding, headers, ... \n",
"We can use these to access different information of the object."
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"requests.models.Response"
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"type(url)"
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"url.apparent_encoding"
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"\n",
"\n",
"\n",
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"List of serial killers in the United States - Wikipedia\n",
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