urllib error URLError urlopen error Errno -2 Name or service not known

Question

Hi Guys,

I am trying to browse one URL using the urllib module. But it is showing me the below error.

html = urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org" + articleUrl)
urllib.error.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>

How can I solve this error?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to use the read function in your command to get the response content. You can use the below command to avoid this error.

html = urlopen("http://en.wikipedia.org" + articleUrl).read()