render_GET
is generally implemented on a web server but, based on your question, it seems like you're trying to consume data from a web server instead of serving it.
What you want is easy to achieve using the Agent API. Check out this example from the Twisted Web documentation.
from __future__ import print_function
from pprint import pformat
from twisted.internet import reactor
from twisted.internet.defer import Deferred
from twisted.internet.protocol import Protocol
from twisted.web.client import Agent
from twisted.web.http_headers import Headers
class BeginningPrinter(Protocol):
def __init__(self, finished):
self.finished = finished
self.remaining = 1024 * 10
def dataReceived(self, bytes):
if self.remaining:
display = bytes[:self.remaining]
print('Some data received:')
print(display)
self.remaining -= len(display)
def connectionLost(self, reason):
print('Finished receiving body:', reason.getErrorMessage())
self.finished.callback(None)
agent = Agent(reactor)
d = agent.request(
'GET',
'http://example.com/',
Headers({'User-Agent': ['Twisted Web Client Example']}),
None)
def cbRequest(response):
print('Response version:', response.version)
print('Response code:', response.code)
print('Response phrase:', response.phrase)
print('Response headers:')
print(pformat(list(response.headers.getAllRawHeaders())))
finished = Deferred()
response.deliverBody(BeginningPrinter(finished))
return finished
d.addCallback(cbRequest)
def cbShutdown(ignored):
reactor.stop()
d.addBoth(cbShutdown)
reactor.run()
The dataReceived
event is invoked when something arrives.
Hope this helps.