title: HTML Python Requests Library - Too Slow
body: <p>I'm using python requests library to get the source code for URL and apply a regex to extract some data using the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>for url in urls:
      print url
      page = requests.get(url)
      matches = re.findall('btn btn-primary font-bold"&gt;\s*&lt;span&gt;([^&lt;]*)', page.text)
      for match in matches:
          print match
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This code works but it is far too slow; it takes more than 5 seconds per request. Are there any suggestions to make it faster?</p>
  
  <p>Also - should I be adding any try/error code for robustness? </p>