No module named requests on the AWS Python Lambda function

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to create one lambda function and also try to read one url inside that lambda function. For that I am using request function, but I am getting this below error.

Unable to import module 'lambda_function': No module named requests

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

According to my knowledge requests is not a standard library in AWS lambda. So to use this library you can Import it from the Botocore libraries.

from botocore.vendored import requests