python requests: connection problems

Question

i´m pretty new in Python programming. I have python3 and i installed requests via pip.

I cant connect to any site with .get...

Is it a firewall or some connection problems ? I´m clueless

my code:

import requests

response = requests.get('https://google.com', timeout=20)

print(response.status_code)

Output: I get a wall of Errors, see images.

If i try to catch exeptions: Code:

import requests

try:
    response = requests.get('https://google.com', timeout=20)
    if response.status_code == 200:
        print(response.json())
    else:
        print(f"Fehler beim Abrufen der Daten. Statuscode: {response.status_code}")
except Exception as e:
    print(f"Fehler: {e}")

Output: Fehler: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='google.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPSConnection object at 0x00000215B98DE900>: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10051] A socket operation was related to an unavailable network'))

Answer 1

I don't know for sure what the issue is, however, assuming google.com is not down, most likely the reason is a firewall.

Here is how I would go about it:

1. Try to access the same url using a browser from the same machine. If it does not work, you know it is a firewall. If it does work, I would check your browser's proxy settings.
2. If the browser has proxy settings (whether manual or automatic), I would pass the same proxy (or proxies) to your request (e.g., requests.get(url, proxies={'http': <your_http_proxy>, 'https': <your_https_proxy>}) )

Of course for google.com to be down is not impossible, but very very unlikely