Script to connect to a web page

Question

Looking for a python script that would simply connect to a web page (maybe some querystring parameters).

I am going to run this script as a batch job in unix.

Answer 1

urllib2 will do what you want and it's pretty simple to use.

import urllib
import urllib2

params = {'param1': 'value1'}

req = urllib2.Request("http://someurl", urllib.urlencode(params))
res = urllib2.urlopen(req)

data = res.read()

It's also nice because it's easy to modify the above code to do all sorts of other things like POST requests, Basic Authentication, etc.

Answer 2

Try this:

aResp = urllib2.urlopen("http://google.com/");
print aResp.read();