request.get(url) returns empty content

Question

I am trying to figure this out, but had no luck:

import requests
r = requests.get(\'http://example.com/m7ppct4\', allow_redirects=True)

Answer 1

It looks like the website linked by tinyurl (azstatejobs) filters requests based on user-agents. Spoofing the Chrome user-agent worked for me:

import requests
url = 'http://tinyurl.com/m7ppct4'
user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36'
headers = {'User-Agent': user_agent}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

(allow_redirect is true by default)

You might want to try different user-agents and see what makes that website not like the python requests user-agent.