Steve

Thanks for trying wptools @alexzabbey. That's a good idea! Will try to implement, or you're welcome to submit a PR... 😉

Yes, I started with `requests`, but couldn't figure out why it was so much more slow than just using `curl`. Turns out, all of that scaffolding around `urllib3` is costly....

Planning to add `urllib3` as alternative/replacement for `pycurl`

Thanks @uriva Could be nice, but please see #141

@uriva You are welcome to submit a PR for this. We'll be interested in ensuring we do not make it easy for our users or this package's user-agent to get...

Yes, try `page = wptools.page(silent=True)`, as mentioned in our [Usage](https://github.com/siznax/wptools/wiki/Usage) wiki page.

Hmm. That might be a good idea. Anyone else have a preference? (thinking about it)

Yes @TsUNaMyWaVe, try catching the exception raised, probably `LookupError`. Something like this? ```python try: except LookupError: pass ```

@TsUNaMyWaVe thanks for the suggestion. In the case of an error, redirecting to `stderr` seems appropriate. Still trying to decide if "silent by default" is best. Any opinion on that?

Thanks for your interest @applieddesign, and for your offer! Issue #147 is attached to release v0.5, which I just put on a finish date of Jan 31 2021. I'm in...