Size of raw response in bytes
python, python-requests
Solution
Just take the `len()` of the content of the response:
>>> response = requests.get('https://github.com/')
>>> len(response.content)
51671
If you want to keep the streaming, for instance if the content is (too) large you can iterate over chunks of the data and sum their sizes:
>>> with requests.get('https://github.com/', stream=True) as response:
... size = sum(len(chunk) for chunk in response.iter_content(8196))
>>> size
51671
Problem
I need to make a HTTP request and determine the response size in bytes. I have always used `request` for simple HTTP requests, but I am wondering if I can achieve this using raw? ``` >>> r = requests.get('https://github.com/', stream=True) >>> r.raw ``` My only problem is I don't understand what raw returns or how I could count this data-type in bytes? Is using `request` and raw the right approach?