How to extract HTTP response body from a Python requests call?

Question

I'm using the Python requests library. I'm trying to figure out how to extract the actual HTML body from a response. The code looks a bit like this:

r = requests.get(...)
print r.content

This should indeed print lots of content, but instead prints nothing.

Any suggestions? Maybe I've misunderstood how requests.get() works?

Answer 1

Your code is correct. I tested:

r = requests.get("http://www.google.com")
print(r.content)

And it returned plenty of content. Check the url, try "http://www.google.com". Cheers!