magpie.network

Module Contents

Functions

http_get	Perform an http GET method on the given URL.
http_get_json	Perform an http GET method on the given URL and return it as a JSON object.

API

magpie.network.http_get(url: str, headers=None) → str

Perform an http GET method on the given URL.

Tip

This can be run as a celery task

Parameters:

• url – the given URL to fetch

• headers – optional http headers to pass along the request

Returns:

the text content of the given URL

magpie.network.http_get_json(url: str, headers=None) → magpie.network.JsonObject

Perform an http GET method on the given URL and return it as a JSON object.

Tip

This can be run as a celery task

Parameters:

• url – the given URL to fetch

• headers – optional http headers to pass along the request

Returns:

a JSON object parsed from the content of the given URL