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Narkw Brahma

Narkw Brahma

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Python Requests Quiet:

When making HTTP requests in Python, the Requests library is a popular choice. It provides a simple and easy-to-use interface for sending HTTP/1.1 requests using Python. However, sometimes we may want to perform requests without displaying any output to the console. This can be particularly useful when we want to run a script silently, without any user interaction or console output.

Option 1: Redirecting Output to /dev/null

One simple way to make Python Requests quiet is to redirect the output to /dev/null on Unix-based systems or to nul on Windows. This will effectively discard all output generated by the script.


import os
import requests

# Redirect output to /dev/null (Unix) or nul (Windows)
with open(os.devnull, 'w') as devnull:
    response = requests.get('https://www.example.com', stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)

The above code will perform an HTTP GET request to https://www.example.com and redirect all output generated by the script to /dev/null on Unix-based systems or to nul on Windows.

Option 2: Disabling Logging

Another way to make Python Requests quiet is to disable logging. Requests uses the built-in Python logging module to log warnings, errors, and other messages to the console. If we disable logging, we can prevent any output from being displayed.


import logging
import requests

# Disable logging for Requests library
logging.getLogger('requests').setLevel(logging.CRITICAL)

response = requests.get('https://www.example.com')

The above code will perform an HTTP GET request to https://www.example.com and disable all logging messages generated by the Requests library. This will prevent any output from being displayed on the console.

Option 3: Using Fiddler or Charles Proxy

A third option to make Python Requests quiet is to use a proxy such as Fiddler or Charles Proxy. These proxies can intercept and log HTTP traffic, allowing us to inspect the requests and responses sent by our Python script without displaying any output to the console.

To use a proxy with Python Requests, we simply need to set the proxies parameter to the proxy URL:


import requests

proxies = {
  "http": "http://127.0.0.1:8888",
  "https": "https://127.0.0.1:8888",
}

response = requests.get('https://www.example.com', proxies=proxies)

The above code will perform an HTTP GET request to https://www.example.com using the Fiddler or Charles Proxy running on 127.0.0.1:8888. This will allow us to inspect and log all HTTP traffic generated by our script without displaying any output to the console.

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