async get

Learn GET requests with await session.get.

async get

session.get(url) is the asynchronous method that makes a GET request. The response is returned as a context manager and opened with async with.

async with session.get("https://example.com") as resp:
    text = await resp.text()

resp.status gives the status code and resp.text() gives the body. The body is a coroutine, so it is awaited with await.

Status code and body

A GET response has two key pieces of data: the status code (e.g. 200, 404) and the body. The status code comes from the resp.status attribute, the body from await resp.text() or await resp.read().

async with session.get(url) as resp:
    print(resp.status)
    print(await resp.text())

200 means success, 404 means not found, 500 means server error. You can read the body once; a second read returns empty.

Exercise Read body with async get

Start with import asyncio and import aiohttp. Inside async def main() open async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:. Make a GET request with async with session.get("https://example.com") as resp:. Print the body with print(await resp.text()). Add asyncio.run(main()).

Show example solution

import asyncio
import aiohttp

class _S:
    async def __aenter__(self): return self
    async def __aexit__(self, *a): return False
    def get(self, url): return self
    async def text(self): return 'merhaba'

aiohttp.ClientSession = _S

async def main():
    async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
        async with session.get('https://example.com') as resp:
            print(await resp.text())

asyncio.run(main())

Test yourself

Match the get concepts

session.get

Makes a GET request
resp.status

Gives status code
await resp.text

Returns body
async with

Closes resource
What does session.get(url) return?
- A context manager
- A dict
- A string
- A file object
Show answer

A context manager — session.get returns a context manager; it is opened with async with.

Complete the get call

async with ____("https://example.com") as resp:

Show answer

async with session.get("https://example.com") as resp:

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