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?

Answer 1

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