urllib GET requests in Python

Fetching JSON from an API with the standard library.

import json
import urllib.request

url = "https://api.example.com/repos?page=1"
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"Accept": "application/json"})

with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=10) as res:
    status = res.status
    body = res.read().decode()

repos = json.loads(body)
names = [r["name"] for r in repos]

How it works

Request carries the URL and headers.
urlopen sends it; read returns the body bytes.
json.loads parses the decoded response.

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