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response.url - Python requests - GeeksforGeeks

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

returns the URL of the response. It will show the main url which has returned the content, after all redirections, if done. 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.

To illustrate use of response.url, let's ping api.github.com. 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://api.github.com/')

# print response
print(response)

# print url
print(response.url)

Save above file as

and run using

Python request.py

Check that

, it shows the url that returned the response.

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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