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Using the Requests library
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gistfile1.py
import requests
import codecs
url = 'http://www.instapaper.com/m'
params = {'u': 'http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/30/bn-8-k-microsoft-paying-180m-advance-on-nook-for-windows-8-125m-for-content-tech-acquisition/'}
r = requests.get(url, params=params)
# r.text holds the response from the server. It appears to be unicode in this case.
f = codecs.open("foo.html", mode="w", encoding="UTF-8")
f.write(r.text)
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