Python Requests: HTTP for Humans

Python requests module provides very interactive way to access web content via proper HTTP protocol.

Installation:
Here is the installation manual. You can also install using pip :
pip install requests

import requests

r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
print r.status_code
print r.headers['content-type']
print r.encoding
print r.text
print r.json()

Output:

200
'application/json; charset=utf8'
'utf-8'
u'{"type":"User"...'
{u'private_gists': 419, u'total_private_repos': 77, ...}