Getting ready

Using the fantastic requests module, getting web pages is super simple. Install the module:

$ echo "requests==2.18.3" >> requirements.txt
$ source .venv/bin/activate
(.venv) $ pip install -r requirements.txt 

We'll download the page at http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/sample.html because it is a straightforward HTML page that is easy to read in text mode.