gzip url request in python

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I am using python with requests module to fetch data from api with a json feed. When I include the request for gzip as the encoding I am not seeing any change. Am I implementing it the wrong way here?

my_headers = {'accept-encoding':'gzip'}
response = requests.get(url, headers=my_headers)
print(response.headers)
print(len(response.content))

The response headers always come back with

'Content-Encoding': 'gzip'

but this happens with or without the inclusion of my request headers, the length and load times do not change either

Bert Peters · Accepted Answer · 2023-01-28 19:26:29Z

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Requests: HTTP for Humans - Binary Response Content

gzip and deflate transfer-encodings are automatically decoded for you.

edited Jan 28, 2023 at 19:26

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Yinon Ehrlich Over a year ago

Updated link: requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/quickstart/… (cannot edit the original answer)

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