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response.history - Python requests - GeeksforGeeks

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

Python requests are generally used to fetch the content from a particular resource URI. Whenever we make a request to a specified URI through Python, it returns a response object. Now, this response object would be used to access certain features such as content, headers, etc. This article revolves around how to check the

out of a response object.

returns a list of response objects holding the history of request (url). Basically, it shows how did the request reach the target in form of a list of responses.

To illustrate use of response.history, let's ping geeksforgeeks.org. To run this script, you need to have Python and requests installed on your PC.

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# import requests module
import requests

# Making a get request
response = requests.get('https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/')

# print response
print(response)

# print history
print(response.history)

Save above file as

and run using

Python request.py

Check that

at the start of the output, it shows the different responses.Response 301 shows a redirect request.

There are many libraries to make an HTTP request in Python, which are

,

,

,

, etc., but

is the one of the best with cool features. If any attribute of requests shows NULL, check the status code using below attribute.

requests.status_code

If status_code doesn't lie in range of 200-29. You probably need to check method begin used for making a request + the url you are requesting for resources.

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