Compare requests with python

Question

I want to compare two requests (requests to website) with python. In the first step I'll get the response and save that in a variable (f1 and f2). After, I'll want to compare them and if there are difference, I want to know what's the difference. For example, difference can be a new button on the website or text changes of blog article.

import requests

f1 = requests.get(link1)
f2 = requests.get(link2)

if f1.text == f2.text:
   #some code to analyse, what's the difference
   print('f1 and f2 is different')

How can get the difference between f1 and f2 in the best way?

Does this answer your question? [Python - difference between two strings](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17904097/python-difference-between-two-strings) — The Fool, Apr 04 '22 at 19:55
What do you think about this solution? => https://docs.python.org/2/library/difflib.html#difflib.HtmlDiff — Christian01, Apr 04 '22 at 20:04

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '22 at 19:59

You can split the f1 and f2 by using .split(" ") and then use a for loop to get word for word differences in the two like so:

differentWords = {}
f1Split = f1.split(" ")
f2Split = f2.split(" ")
for i,b in f1Split,f2Split:
   if(f1Split[i] == f2Split[b]):
      #The words are the same
   else:
      differentWords.append(f"{f1Split}:{f2Split}")

The ideas are there but I think that this should hypothetically be a start to your solution.

Compare requests with python

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