Question

import os
import shelve
import urllib
import urlparse
import sys
import shelve
import oauth2 as oauth
import requests

api_key = 'xyz'
url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread?query=hello&key=xyz'

resp, content = requests.request(url, "GET")
print resp

I’m just testing the freebase api. When I run this basic script, I got this error: requests.exceptions.MissingSchema: Invalid URL ‘GET’: No schema supplied
Any reasons why?

Answer 1

I believe what you are looking for is this:

>>> import requests
>>> url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/mqlread?query=hello&key=xyz'
>>> requests.get(url)
<Response [400]>
>>>

From the Requests documentation

requests.request(method, url, **kwargs)

It return an instance of the Response object.

So, you need to give the arguments in the right order.

>>> requests.request("GET",url)
<Response [400]>
>>>