How to get html from web page in Django

Question

I was trying to implement some testing in Django, and I needed to check the data on the web page with a string, but I couldn't retrieve data from the web page. so, how can I get data(html) from web page?

my tests.py

from rest_framework.test import APITestCase

class TicketTestCase(APITestCase):

    def test_user_details_on_ticket_id(self):

        response = self.client.get(f"/api/ticket/1")
        print(response.content) # this returns empty data in bytes

        # I want to check this
        #self.assertEquals(response.data, "helloworld")

Why don't you print out response.status_code and make sure it is what you expect. — Red Cricket
– Red Cricket, Commented Aug 31, 2020 at 1:06
@RedCricket because response.status_code just prints the status code and I want the actual data to verify — Heisenberg
– Heisenberg, Commented Aug 31, 2020 at 2:16
"data(html)" ... DRF return the data as JSON, What do you mean by HTML here? — JPG
– JPG, Commented Aug 31, 2020 at 3:41
@ArakkalAbu I didn't knew that it returns the data in JSON. Can you please tell me how can I get the data in JSON? — Heisenberg
– Heisenberg, Commented Aug 31, 2020 at 3:47
I think the self.assertEquals(response.data "helloworld") will do the job. Have you tried that? — JPG
– JPG, Commented Aug 31, 2020 at 3:48

Anant · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-01 13:23:21Z

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What you're doing is correct. You can retrieve data from web page by using response.content . The problem is that you're missing a slash at the end of the url, so the url should be

 response = self.client.get(f"/api/ticket/1/")

instead of

 response = self.client.get(f"/api/ticket/1")

answered Sep 1, 2020 at 13:23

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