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Building an HTTP Client with requests

Being able to interact with RESTful APIs based on HTTP is an increasingly common task in projects in any programming language. In Python, we also have the option of interacting with a REST API in a simple way with the Requests module. In this section, we review the different ways in which we can interact with an HTTP-based API using the Python Requests package.

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