In order to get the HTML of the website, we need to make a request to get the content of the webpage. To learn more about requests in a general sense, you can check out this article.

Python has a requests library that makes getting content really easy. All we have to do is import the library, and then feed in the URL we want to GET:

import requests

webpage = requests.get('https://www.codecademy.com/articles/http-requests')
print(webpage.text)

This code will print out the HTML of the page.

We don’t want to unleash a bunch of requests on any one website in this lesson, so for the rest of this lesson we will be scraping a local HTML file and pretending it’s an HTML file hosted online.