Python requests: URL base in Session

Question

When using a Session, it seems you need to provide the full URL each time, e.g.

session = requests.Session()
session.get(\'http://myserver/getstuff\')
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Answer 1

This feature has been asked on the forums a few times 1, 2, 3. The preferred approach as documented here, is subclassing, as follows:

from requests import Session
from urlparse import urljoin

class LiveServerSession(Session):
    def __init__(self, prefix_url=None, *args, **kwargs):
        super(LiveServerSession, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.prefix_url = prefix_url

    def request(self, method, url, *args, **kwargs):
        url = urljoin(self.prefix_url, url)
        return super(LiveServerSession, self).request(method, url, *args, **kwargs)

You would use this simply as follows:

baseUrl = 'http://api.twitter.com'
with LiveServerSession(baseUrl) as s:
    resp = s.get('/1/statuses/home_timeline.json')