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How to get the raw content of a response in requests with Python?

Trying to get the raw data of the HTTP response content in requests in Python. I am interested in forwarding the response through another channel, which means that ideally the content should be as pristine as possible.

What would be a good way to do this?

Solution

  • 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. The stream=True parameter in the requests.get call is required for this to work.

    >>> 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'