How do I set headers using python's urllib?

Question

I am pretty new to python's urllib. What I need to do is set a custom header for the request being sent to the server. Specifically, I need to set the Content-type and Authorizations headers. I have looked into the python documentation, but I haven't been able to find it.

Answer 1

For both Python 3 and Python 2, this works:

try:     from urllib.request import Request, urlopen  # Python 3 except ImportError:     from urllib2 import Request, urlopen  # Python 2  req = Request('http://api.company.com/items/details?country=US&language=en') req.add_header('apikey', 'xxx') content = urlopen(req).read()  print(content) 

Answer 2

adding HTTP headers using urllib2:

from the docs:

import urllib2 req = urllib2.Request('http://www.example.com/') req.add_header('Referer', 'http://www.python.org/') resp = urllib2.urlopen(req) content = resp.read()