network (web, native) – Edge Python

network is HTTP, WebSocket, and Server-Sent Events from scripts. Import it by bare name or declare it in the system field of packages.json. The native engine builds it in, see the native engine.

The surface is fetch, fetch_text, fetch_json, abort_request, plus WebSocket (ws_open, ws_send, ws_close, ws_state) and Server-Sent Events (sse_open, sse_close, sse_state). HTTP calls suspend until the response arrives. fetch returns the full response as a JSON string with id, ok, status, headers, and body, and abort_request(id) cancels an in-flight request. fetch_text returns the body as a string and fetch_json does the same for you to parse with json.loads. Both raise on a non-2xx status. All three take an optional second argument, a JSON options string (RequestInit in the browser). WebSocket and SSE connections open with a msg tag and stream events through receive(), with payload type values open, message, close, and error. Binary WebSocket frames surface as binary: true only. In the browser, CORS applies: a cross-origin target must return Access-Control-Allow-Origin or the call raises. CORS is a browser rule and does not apply on other hosts.

from network import fetch, fetch_text import json data = json.loads(fetch("https://api.github.com/zen")) print(data["ok"], data["status"]) print(len(fetch_text("https://api.github.com/zen")) > 0)

Output · expected


True 200
True

from network import fetch_json, fetch_text import json data = json.loads(fetch_json("https://api.github.com/")) print(isinstance(data, dict)) try: fetch_text("https://nope.invalid/x") except Exception as e: print(type(e).__name__)

Output · expected


True
RuntimeError

Known limitations: the native engine suspends on fetch and supports WebSocket and SSE like the browser. The irreducible difference is CORS, a browser rule that does not apply natively, and per-host connection limits that differ between the two.