Make a HEAD request to a web page, and return the HTTP headers:
import requests
x = requests.head('https://www.w3schools.com/python/demopage.php')
print(x.headers)
The head() method sends a HEAD request to the specified url.
HEAD requests are done when you do not need the content of the file, but only the status_code or HTTP headers.
Syntaxargs means zero or more of the named arguments in the parameter table below. Example:
requests.head(url, timeout=2.50)
Parameter Values Parameter Description url Try it Required. The url of the request allow_redirects Try itFalse (not allowing redirects) auth Try it Optional. A tuple to enable a certain HTTP authentication.
None cert Try it Optional. A String or Tuple specifying a cert file or key.
None cookies Try it Optional. A dictionary of cookies to send to the specified url.
None headers Try it Optional. A dictionary of HTTP headers to send to the specified url.
None proxies Try it Optional. A dictionary of the protocol to the proxy url.
None stream Try it Optional. A Boolean indication if the response should be immediately downloaded (False) or streamed (True).
False timeout Try it Optional. A number, or a tuple, indicating how many seconds to wait for the client to make a connection and/or send a response.
None which means the request will continue until the connection is closed verify Try it Optional. A Boolean or a String indication to verify the servers TLS certificate or not.
True Return Value
The head() method returns a requests.Response object.
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