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HTTP GET request in Python

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Last edited Aug 5, 2019
Created on Aug 4, 2019

Three examples demonstrate HTTP GET requests in Python using the `requests` library. The first queries the OMDb API for movie data, decoding JSON responses into dictionaries and printing key-value pairs. The second fetches an HTML page from python.org and parses it with BeautifulSoup to prettify the markup. The third retrieves documentation HTML from DataCamp and prints the raw text. Together, they show JSON and HTML handling, with sources from OMDb, python.org, and DataCamp.

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