Python Web Crawlers and “getting” html source code

Question

So my brother wanted me to write a web crawler in Python (self-taught) and I know C++, Java, and a bit of html. I\'m using version 2.7 and reading the python library, but I

Answer 1

If you are using Python > 3.x you don't need to install any libraries, this is directly built in the python framework. The old urllib2 package has been renamed to urllib:

from urllib import request

response = request.urlopen("https://www.google.com")
# set the correct charset below
page_source = response.read().decode('utf-8')
print(page_source)