introducing web requests

Can make web requests including 'get', 'post', 'put'
#1

hacky/__init__.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
-import generator
+import generator, web

hacky/web.py

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import requests
+
+"""
+Defining this function as of now. Will come back to this later. Need to have a generic function for all the scrape related actions
+"""
+
+
+def scrape(url): # type can be JSON as of now
+ scraped_webpage = requests.get(url)
+ if type != "JSON":
+ return scraped_webpage.text
+ try:
+ return scraped_webpage.json()
+ except ValueError:
+ return 'No JSON object could be decoded'
+
+
+def request(url, **kwargs):
+ if kwargs is not None:
+ try:
+ payload = kwargs['params']
+ except KeyError:
+ payload = None
+ return 'It only supports optional argument: method, params and type'
+ try:
+ method = kwargs['method']
+ except KeyError:
+ print 'Please mention the method: get, post, put'
+ return
+
+ try:
+ return_type = kwargs['type']
+ except KeyError:
+ return_type = None
+
+ if method.lower() == "get":
+ r = requests.get(url, params=payload)
+ elif method.lower() == "post":
+ r = requests.post(url, params=payload)
+ elif method.lower() == "put":
+ r = requests.put(url, params=payload)
+ else:
+ return 'Method not allowed'
+
+ if return_type == "JSON":
+ return r.json()
+ else:
+ return r.text

requirements.txt

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-urllib3==1.22
 Faker==0.8.4
+requests==2.18.4