Size of raw response in bytes

Question

I need to make a HTTP request and determine the response size in bytes. I have always used request for simple HTTP requests, but I am wondering if I can achieve this using raw?

>>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/', stream=True) >>> r.raw 

My only problem is I don't understand what raw returns or how I could count this data-type in bytes? Is using request and raw the right approach?

Answer 1

Just take the len() of the content of the response:

>>> response = requests.get('https://github.com/') >>> len(response.content) 51671 

If you want to keep the streaming, for instance if the content is (too) large you can iterate over chunks of the data and sum their sizes:

>>> with requests.get('https://github.com/', stream=True) as response: ...     size = sum(len(chunk) for chunk in response.iter_content(8196)) >>> size 51671