This will cause the requests module to print out anything it's doing

debug_http_requests.py

"""
Thank you
http://stackoverflow.com/a/24588289/177498
"""

def debug():
    import logging

    # These two lines enable debugging at httplib level (requests->urllib3->http.client)
    # You will see the REQUEST, including HEADERS and DATA, and RESPONSE with HEADERS but without DATA.
    # The only thing missing will be the response.body which is not logged.
    try:
        import http.client as http_client
    except ImportError:
        # Python 2
        import httplib as http_client
    http_client.HTTPConnection.debuglevel = 1

    # You must initialize logging, otherwise you'll not see debug output.
    logging.basicConfig()
    logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    requests_log = logging.getLogger("requests.packages.urllib3")
    requests_log.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    requests_log.propagate = True