Python requests library in AWS Glue

Question

Can you use the Python's request library in AWS Glue? Is there a replacement to the Requests library that can be used with Glue since Glue only supports pure python modules?

Answer 1

You can use the urllib package.

From the Documentation:

urllib is a package that collects several modules for working with URLs:

• urllib.request for opening and reading URLs
• urllib.error containing the exceptions raised by urllib.request
• urllib.parse for parsing URLs
• urllib.robotparser for parsing robots.txt files

A simple get request using requests

import requests
r=requests.get('http://www.python.org/')
print(r.text)

Alternative using urllib

import urllib.request
r=urllib.request.urlopen('http://www.python.org/').read()
print(r)