Allowing gzip encoding with urllib

acceptgzipped.py

__author__ = 'David Manouchehri'

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib.request
import gzip
import io

url = 'http://yoururlgoesherehopefullythisisntavalidurl.com/pages.html'

headers = {'Accept': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
           'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
           'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5',
           'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0'}


req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=headers)
response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)

if response.info().get('Content-Encoding') == 'gzip':
    pagedata = gzip.decompress(response.read())
elif response.info().get('Content-Encoding') == 'deflate':
    pagedata = response.read()
elif response.info().get('Content-Encoding'):
    print('Encoding type unknown')
else:
    pagedata = response.read()

soup = BeautifulSoup(pagedata)

print(soup.prettify())

thx for sharing!
your snippet help me to fix httpie/http-prompt > cli.py which failed reading a compressed resource coming from the --spec parameter :)