python requests post

import requests

url = 'https://www.w3schools.com/python/demopage.php'
myobj = {'somekey': 'somevalue'}

x = requests.post(url, data = myobj)

print(x.text)

# pip install requests
import requests
req = requests.get('<url here>', 'html.parser')
print(req.text)

# pip install requests
import requests
req = requests.post('<url here>', 'html.parser')
print(req.text)

Raise an exception if a request is unsuccessful

import requests
url = "http://mock.kite.com/status/404"
r = requests.get(url)
try: 
    r.raise_for_status()
except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as e: 
    print e
OUTPUT
404 Client Error: NOT FOUND