Unable to fetch url in python

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I was not able to fetch url from biblegateway.com here it shows error as urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure> Please don't make duplicate as i went throught the sites which shown in duplicate i didn't understand by visiting that site .

here is my code

import urllib2
url = 'https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+1&version=NIV'
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
html = response.read()
print html

Which python? Compare to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30918761/sslv3-alert-handshake-failure-with-urllib2 and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31649390/python-requests-ssl-handshake-failure — dave_thompson_085, Jun 30 '19 at 18:34
Possible duplicate of [python requests ssl handshake failure](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31649390/python-requests-ssl-handshake-failure) — Abdeslem SMAHI, Jun 30 '19 at 18:39

Evgeny · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-30T18:55:44.080

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Here is a good reference for fetching url.

In python 3 you can have:

from urllib.request import urlopen
URL = 'https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+1&version=NIV'
f = urlopen(URL)
myfile = f.read()
print(myfile)

Not sure it clears a ssl problem though. Maybe some clues here.

edited Jun 30 '19 at 18:55

answered Jun 30 '19 at 18:38

Evgeny

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its showing `AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'request'` @Evgeny – Biki Teron Jun 30 '19 at 18:40
Are running it in python 3? – Evgeny Jun 30 '19 at 18:45
Its working now by replaing `import urllib` by `import urllib.request` @ Evgeny – Biki Teron Jun 30 '19 at 18:51
right, in 3.6 it does. does it bypass ssl error though? – Evgeny Jun 30 '19 at 18:54
also, [requests](https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/) is a lot easier, more high level than `urllib` – Evgeny Jun 30 '19 at 18:57

Unable to fetch url in python

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