Python equivalent of PHP's file_get_contents on websites (NOT LOCAL FILES)
import urllib2,cookielib | |
''' | |
Function that returns the source from the target url | |
@param url | |
''' | |
def file_get_contents(url): | |
url = str(url).replace(" ", "+") # just in case, no space in url | |
hdr = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.64 Safari/537.11', | |
'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', | |
'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3', | |
'Accept-Encoding': 'none', | |
'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.8', | |
'Connection': 'keep-alive'} | |
req = urllib2.Request(url, headers=hdr) | |
try: | |
page = urllib2.urlopen(req) | |
return page.read() | |
except urllib2.HTTPError, e: | |
print e.fp.read() | |
return '' | |
#example | |
print file_get_contents("https://twinnation.org/api/v1/ip") |
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Updated for Python 3.*:
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Thank you, this file helped me! :)