Python - Get HTML Source Code of a Web Page

Question

I want to get the HTML source from a site ('example.com' for example).

I tried the following:

import urllib2

response = urllib2.urlopen("https://example.com")
page_source = response.read()

It says:

'No module named urllib2'

How can I prevent this error?

Is there any particular reason to use urllib2 here? Because i would suggest: from requests import request with a usage like resp = request('GET', <url>).pageSource = resp.text. Also what version of python are you using? — garglblarg
– garglblarg, Commented Aug 23, 2018 at 18:44
Btw: this might be relevant to your problem from somebody who wanted to use urllib2 in python3: thread — garglblarg
– garglblarg, Commented Aug 23, 2018 at 18:50

Skiller Dz · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-23 19:10:31Z

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why you don't use requests module ? :

import requests

r = requests.get("https://example.com")
print r.text

or for answer correctly to you'r question , you can download the urllib2 module using pip and easy_install :

pip install urllib2
easy_isntall urllib2

for requests:

pip install requests
easy_install requests

for requests , you should install urllib3:

pip install urllib3
easy_install urllib3

answered Aug 23, 2018 at 19:10

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Requests works but can't install urllib2 , recieving errors