import logging logging.basicConfig( format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s', level=logging.DEBUG) import requests USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" FORWARD_IP = '66.249.66.1' def xml(route, ref=None): try: headers = {'User-Agent': USER_AGENT, 'X-Forwarded-For': FORWARD_IP} r = requests.get(route(ref), headers=headers, timeout=5) if r.status_code != 200: raise Exception('Bad response code ' + str(r.status_code)) return r.text except KeyboardInterrupt: raise except BaseException as e: logging.error('Problem hitting URL: {}'.format(str(e))) return False def json(route, ref=None): try: headers = {'User-Agent': USER_AGENT, 'X-Forwarded-For': FORWARD_IP} r = requests.get(route(ref), headers=headers, timeout=5) if r.status_code != 200: raise Exception('Bad response code ' + str(r.status_code)) return r.json() except KeyboardInterrupt: raise except BaseException as e: logging.error('Problem hitting URL: {}'.format(str(e))) return False