What should I use to open a url instead of urlopen in urllib3

Question

I wanted to write a piece of code like the following:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib2

url = \'http://www.thefamouspeople.com/singers.php\'
html = u         


        

Answer 1

You do not have to install urllib3. You can choose any HTTP-request-making library that fits your needs and feed the response to BeautifulSoup. The choice is though usually requests because of the rich feature set and convenient API. You can install requests by entering pip install requests in the command line. Here is a basic example:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import requests

url = "url"
response = requests.get(url)

soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, "html.parser")