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When you make an HTTP request in Python using the requests library, it returns a response object. One of the most important attributes of this object is response.content, which gives you the raw response body in bytes. This is especially useful when dealing with binary data like images, PDFs, audio files, or any non-textual content.
Let's look at an example that demonstrates how to use request.content in step by step:

Installation

To use request module, we need to first install it using this command:

pip install requests

Basic Example: Reading Raw Response from an API

Example 1:

Let’s make a simple GET request to GitHub’s API and view the raw response content in bytes.

Python 
import requests  res = requests.get('https://api.github.com') print(res.content)

Output: 

Response1111111111111111111111111111111111111
Terminal Output

Explanation:

  • requests.get() sends a GET request to the given URL.
  • res.content gives you the entire response body in raw bytes.
  • Check that 'b' at the start of output, it means the reference to a bytes object.

Example 2: Download an Image using response.content

Download and save an image from a URL using response.content:

Python 
import requests  img_url = 'https://picsum.photos/id/237/200/300' res = requests.get(img_url)  with open('sample_image.png', 'wb') as f:     f.write(res.content)

Output:

This code downloads the image from the given URL and saves it as 'sample_image.png' in the current working directory..

237-536x354
This is the sample image

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