How do I send a custom header with urllib2 in a HTTP Request?

Question

I want to send a custom \"Accept\" header in my request when using urllib2.urlopen(..). How do I do that?

Answer 1

I normally use:

import urllib2

request_headers = {
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.5",
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0",
"Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
"Referer": "http://thewebsite.com",
"Connection": "keep-alive" 
}

request = urllib2.Request("https://thewebsite.com", headers=request_headers)
response = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
print(response)