Python 3.7.4 (default, Sep  7 2019, 18:27:02)
     >>> import requests
     >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/repos/psf/requests')
     >>> r.json()["description"]
     'An elegant & simple HTTP library. Handcrafted, with ♥, for the Python community.'
    

    

    
    

This software has been designed for you, with much joy, 
by Kenneth Reitz & is secured by The Python Software Foundation.
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Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built with ♥

```pycon >>> import requests >>> 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, ...} ```

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--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 of all time, pulling in around `14M downloads / week`— according to GitHub, Requests is currently [depended upon](https://github.com/psf/requests/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS01NzA4OTExNg%3D%3D) by `367_296` repositories. You can trust this code.

Supported Features & Best–Practices

Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speaking applications, on today's web (or your own infrastructure). 
         + International Domains and URLs       + Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
         + Sessions with Cookie Persistence     + Browser-style SSL Verification 
         + Basic & Digest Authentication        + Familiar `dict`–like Cookies   
         + Automatic Decompression of Content   + Automatic Content Decoding     
         + Automatic Connection Pooling         + Unicode Response Bodies*
         + Multi-part File Uploads              + SOCKS Proxy Support            
         + Connection Timeouts                  + Streaming Downloads
         + Automatic honoring of `.netrc`       + Chunked HTTP Requests          
              
                            &, of course, rock–solid stability!
Installation ------------ To install **Requests**, simply use [**pipenv**](http://pipenv.org/) (or **pip**, of course): ```console $ pipenv install requests Adding requests to Pipfile's [packages]… ✔ Installation Succeeded … ``` Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.4–3.8, and runs great on PyPy. Documentation ------------- Fantastic documentation is available at , for a limited time only. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. ✨ 🍰 ✨