[Answers](https://scrapfly.io/blog) / [httpx](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/httpx) / [How to open Python http responses in a web browser?](https://scrapfly.io/blog/answers/how-to-open-python-responses-in-browser) # How to open Python http responses in a web browser? by [Bernardas Alisauskas](https://scrapfly.io/blog/author/bernardas) Dec 19, 2022 1 min read [\#httpx](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/httpx) [\#python](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/python) [\#requests](https://scrapfly.io/blog/tag/requests) [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-open-python-responses-in-browser "Share on LinkedIn") [ ](https://x.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-open-python-responses-in-browser&text=How%20to%20open%20Python%20http%20responses%20in%20a%20web%20browser%3F "Share on X") [ ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-open-python-responses-in-browser "Share on Facebook") Summarize this article with [ ](https://chat.openai.com/?q=Summarize%20this%20article%20and%20explain%20how%20Scrapfly%20helps%20me%20scrape%20any%20website%20at%20scale%20and%20bypass%20anti-bot%20systems%20for%20my%20use%20case%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-open-python-responses-in-browser) [ ](https://claude.ai/new?q=Summarize%20this%20article%20and%20explain%20how%20Scrapfly%20helps%20me%20scrape%20any%20website%20at%20scale%20and%20bypass%20anti-bot%20systems%20for%20my%20use%20case%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-open-python-responses-in-browser) [ ](https://x.com/i/grok?text=Summarize%20this%20article%20and%20explain%20how%20Scrapfly%20helps%20me%20scrape%20any%20website%20at%20scale%20and%20bypass%20anti-bot%20systems%20for%20my%20use%20case%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-open-python-responses-in-browser) [ ](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q=Summarize%20this%20article%20and%20explain%20how%20Scrapfly%20helps%20me%20scrape%20any%20website%20at%20scale%20and%20bypass%20anti-bot%20systems%20for%20my%20use%20case%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-open-python-responses-in-browser) [ ](https://www.google.com/search?udm=50&aep=11&q=Summarize%20this%20article%20and%20explain%20how%20Scrapfly%20helps%20me%20scrape%20any%20website%20at%20scale%20and%20bypass%20anti-bot%20systems%20for%20my%20use%20case%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fscrapfly.io%2Fblog%2Fanswers%2Fhow-to-open-python-responses-in-browser) To view Python's HTTP responses in a web browser we can save the contents to a temporary file and open it in the default web browser using Python's `webbrowser` module: python```python import webbrowser from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile # this can work with any response object of any http client like: import requests import httpx def view_in_browser(response): """open httpx or requests Response object in default browser""" # first - save content to a temporary file: with NamedTemporaryFile("wb", delete=False, suffix=".html") as file: file.write(response.content) # open temporary file in a new browser tab as a web page webbrowser.open_new_tab(f"file://{file.name}") # - or new window # webbrowser.open_new(f"file://{file.name}") # - or current active tab # webbrowser.open(f"file://{file.name}") # example use: response = requests.get("http://scrapfly.io/") response = httpx.get("http://scrapfly.io/") view_in_browser(response) ``` This is a great tool for developing web scrapers as it allows to easily visualize and debug the scraper process as well as to use the browser's developer tools. 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