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+Requests: HTTP for Humans
+=========================
+
+[![image](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/requests.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/requests/)
+
+[![image](https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/requests.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/requests/)
+
+[![image](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/requests.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/requests/)
+
+[![codecov.io](https://codecov.io/github/requests/requests/coverage.svg?branch=master)](https://codecov.io/github/requests/requests)
+
+[![image](https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/requests/requests.svg)](https://github.com/requests/requests/graphs/contributors)
+
+[![image](https://img.shields.io/badge/Say%20Thanks-!-1EAEDB.svg)](https://saythanks.io/to/kennethreitz)
+
+Requests is the only *Non-GMO* HTTP library for Python, safe for human
+consumption.
+
+![image](https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4317/35198386374_1939af3de6_k_d.jpg)
+
+Behold, the power of Requests:
+
+``` {.sourceCode .python}
+>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
+>>> r.status_code
+200
+>>> r.headers['content-type']
+'application/json; charset=utf8'
+>>> r.encoding
+'utf-8'
+>>> r.text
+u'{"type":"User"...'
+>>> r.json()
+{u'disk_usage': 368627, u'private_gists': 484, ...}
+```
+
+See [the similar code, sans Requests](https://gist.github.com/973705).
+
+[![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/requests/requests/master/docs/_static/requests-logo-small.png)](http://docs.python-requests.org/)
+
+Requests allows you to send *organic, grass-fed* HTTP/1.1 requests,
+without the need for manual labor. There's no need to manually add query
+strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and
+HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, thanks to
+[urllib3](https://github.com/shazow/urllib3).
+
+Besides, all the cool kids are doing it. Requests is one of the most
+downloaded Python packages of all time, pulling in over 11,000,000
+downloads every month. You don't want to be left out!
+
+Feature Support
+---------------
+
+Requests is ready for today's web.
+
+-   International Domains and URLs
+-   Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
+-   Sessions with Cookie Persistence
+-   Browser-style SSL Verification
+-   Basic/Digest Authentication
+-   Elegant Key/Value Cookies
+-   Automatic Decompression
+-   Automatic Content Decoding
+-   Unicode Response Bodies
+-   Multipart File Uploads
+-   HTTP(S) Proxy Support
+-   Connection Timeouts
+-   Streaming Downloads
+-   `.netrc` Support
+-   Chunked Requests
+
+Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.4–3.7, and runs great on
+PyPy.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+To install Requests, simply use [pipenv](http://pipenv.org/) (or pip, of
+course):
+
+``` {.sourceCode .bash}
+$ pipenv install requests
+✨🍰✨
+```
+
+Satisfaction guaranteed.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+Fantastic documentation is available at
+<http://docs.python-requests.org/>, for a limited time only.
+
+How to Contribute
+-----------------
+
+1.  Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion
+    around a feature idea or a bug. There is a [Contributor
+    Friendly](https://github.com/requests/requests/issues?direction=desc&labels=Contributor+Friendly&page=1&sort=updated&state=open)
+    tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very
+    familiar with the codebase yet.
+2.  Fork [the repository](https://github.com/requests/requests) on
+    GitHub to start making your changes to the **master** branch (or
+    branch off of it).
+3.  Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature
+    works as expected.
+4.  Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and
+    published. :) Make sure to add yourself to
+    [AUTHORS](https://github.com/requests/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst).
+