Requests
Requests is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
```python
import requests r = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass', auth=('user', 'pass')) r.status_code 200 r.headers['content-type'] 'application/json; charset=utf8' r.encoding 'utf-8' r.text '{"authenticated": true, ...' r.json() {'authenticated': True, ...} ```
Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your PUT & POST data — but nowadays, just use the json method!
Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages today, pulling in around 30M downloads / week— according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 1,000,000+ repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.
Installing Requests and Supported Versions
Requests is available on PyPI:
console
$ python -m pip install requests
Requests officially supports Python 3.8+.
Supported Features & Best–Practices
Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speaking applications, for the needs of today.
- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
- International Domains and URLs
- Sessions with Cookie Persistence
- Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification
- Basic & Digest Authentication
- Familiar
dict–like Cookies - Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding
- Multi-part File Uploads
- SOCKS Proxy Support
- Connection Timeouts
- Streaming Downloads
- Automatic honoring of
.netrc - Chunked HTTP Requests
API Reference and User Guide available on Read the Docs
Cloning the repository
When cloning the Requests repository, you may need to add the -c
fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore flag to avoid an error about a bad commit (see
this issue for more background):
shell
git clone -c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore https://github.com/psf/requests.git
You can also apply this setting to your global Git config:
shell
git config --global fetch.fsck.badTimezone ignore
