Requests

Requestsis a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

>>>importrequests
>>>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 yourPUT&POSTdata — but nowadays, just use thejsonmethod!

Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages today, pulling in around30M downloads / week— according to GitHub, Requests is currentlydepended uponby1,000,000+repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.

Installing Requests and Supported Versions

Requests is available on PyPI:

$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
• Familiardict–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 onRead the Docs

Cloning the repository

When cloning the Requests repository, you may need to add the-c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignoreflag to avoid an error about a bad commit (see this issuefor more background):

git clone -c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore https://github /psf/requests.git

You can also apply this setting to your global Git config:

git config --global fetch.fsck.badTimezone ignore

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