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MicroPython Cookbook

You're reading from  MicroPython Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838649951
Pages 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Marwan Alsabbagh Marwan Alsabbagh
Profile icon Marwan Alsabbagh

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting started with MicroPython 2. Controlling LEDs 3. Creating Sound and Music 4. Interacting with Buttons 5. Reading Sensor Data 6. Button Bash Game 7. Fruity Tunes 8. Let's Move It, Move It 9. Coding on the micro:bit 10. Controlling the ESP8266 11. Interacting with the Filesystem 12. Networking 13. Interacting with the Adafruit FeatherWing OLED 14. Building an Internet of Things (IoT) Weather Machine 15. Coding on the Adafruit HalloWing Microcontroller 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Performing an HTTP request using the urequests library

This recipe will use the urequests library, which was specially written to work with MicroPython. It provides a convenient way to connect to web servers and perform HTTP requests. This library provides an object that you can use to perform all your HTTP interactions. After the request is completed, you can access different attributes of this object to get a variety of information on the completed request.

This recipe will explore using this library and the different attributes that you might want to access on its objects. When you start creating MicroPython projects that need to make HTTP requests, this library will take care of a lot of the low-level details of making these requests. This will keep your code simpler and more readable, and lets you focus on the task at hand instead of getting bogged down with low-level TCP...

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