Syntax Error in Python Requests library for the identifier “headers”

Question

I'm trying to build a webscraper from a tutorial I watched. Replicating the same work is giving me the following error.

import requests
import bs4
r = requests.get("http://www.pyclass.com/example.html", headers={"User-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0"})  
c=r.content

The error says "Syntax Error: Invalid character in identifier" The word headers is being highlighted.

I really need to use headers so that I can fetch the data by impersonating a web browser, otherwise I am getting a 406 error without it.

Answer 1

Try below code.

import requests
head={"User-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0"}
r=requests.get("http://www.example.com/", headers=head)