[imtringued]

They could have used a database driver for msql, postgresql or mongodb for a more realistic example (very common for sysadmin type scripts that are only used once and then thrown away) and your complaint would be invalid, but then you'd have to set up the database and the example would no longer be fit for a quick blog post that gives you the opportunity to just copy paste the code and run it for yourself.

[ratorx]

Well, the “this script needs package manager part”. The rest of my comment about the state of the HTTP client in Python would still be valid (but I probably wouldn’t have discovered it).