HTML and JSON are the two most common formats you’ll encounter when working with Requests. But when you access response.text, you’ll get a Python string. You need to convert this string to a Python-specific representation (decode it) to efficiently work with it. This can be done with libraries like Beautiful Soup (for HTML) and json (for JSON). The library also includes a built-in decoder and encoder for JSON that you can use by calling the .json() method on a response.