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 project has been brought to you, with much joy, 
by Kenneth Reitz & The Python Software Foundation.

    

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Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings.

Behold, the power of Requests:

>>> 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, ...}

See the similar code, sans Requests.

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.

Besides, all the cool kids are doing it. Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages of all time, pulling about 60,000,000 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 & 3.4–3.8, and runs great on PyPy.

Installation

To install Requests, simply use pipenv (or pip, of course):

$ pipenv install requests

Satisfaction guaranteed.

Documentation

Fantastic documentation is available at http://docs.python-requests.org/, for a limited time only.

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