To view Python's HTTP responses in a web browser we can save the contents to a temporary file and open it in the default web browser using Python's webbrowser module:
import webbrowser from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile # this can work with any response object of any http client like: import requests import httpx def view_in_browser(response): """open httpx or requests Response object in default browser""" # first - save content to a temporary file: with NamedTemporaryFile("wb", delete=False, suffix=".html") as file: file.write(response.content) # open temporary file in a new browser tab as a web page webbrowser.open_new_tab(f"file://{file.name}") # - or new window # webbrowser.open_new(f"file://{file.name}") # - or current active tab # webbrowser.open(f"file://{file.name}") # example use: response = requests.get("http://scrapfly.io/") response = httpx.get("http://scrapfly.io/") view_in_browser(response) This is a great tool for developing web scrapers as it allows to easily visualize and debug the scraper process as well as to use the browser's developer tools.
