# Request

## Make HTTP request

Create a new python file in your favorite text editor. Requests really make it easy for you so all you need to retrieve the HTML are a few lines of code:

```python
import requests

URL = 'https://reporteri.net/zgjedhjet2021/'
page = requests.get(URL)
```

This snippet creates an [HTTP request](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods) to the URL we gave it. It retrieves the HTML data that the server sends back and stores that data in a variable.

```python
print(page)
```

If we use the python function to print out the variable to the console we will see the structure is the DOM of the website. Here is the definition if needed.

>  The Document Object Model (**DOM**) is a **programming** API for **HTML** and XML documents. It defines the logical structure of documents and the way a document is accessed and manipulated. ... The Document Object Model can be used with any **programming** language.