Open a webpage using the urllib library

Karthika A

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Dec 20, 2019

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• Call the read function on the web URL variable
• Read variable allows reading the contents of data files
• Read the entire content of the URL into a variable called request_url
• Use read method to read the HTML content of the site.
• Run the code- It will print the data into an HTML format

import urllib.request 
request_url = urllib.request.urlopen(‘https://www.google.com') 
print(request_url.read())