# Python Requests Module

The `requests` library is the de facto standard for making HTTP requests in Python. It abstracts the complexities of making requests behind a simple API so that you can focus on interacting with services and consuming data in your application.

## Installation

```bash
pip install requests
```

## Making Requests

### GET Request

```python
import requests

response = requests.get('https://api.github.com/events')
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)
```

### POST Request

```python
r = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', data={'key': 'value'})
```

## JSON Response Content

There is a builtin JSON decoder, in case you're dealing with JSON data.

```python
import requests

r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/events')
events = r.json()
print(events[0]['id'])
```

## Custom Headers

If you need to add HTTP headers to a request, simply pass a `dict` to the `headers` parameter.

```python
url = 'https://api.github.com/some/endpoint'
headers = {'user-agent': 'my-app/0.0.1'}

r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
```

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