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.
Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built with ♥
>>> 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, ...}
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 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 | Automatic Content Decoding |
| Automatic Connection Pooling | Unicode Response Bodies (smart) |
| Multi-part File Uploads | SOCKS Proxy Support |
| Connection Timeouts | Streaming Downloads |
| Automatic honoring of .netrc | Chunked HTTP 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
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Satisfaction guaranteed.
Documentation
Fantastic documentation is available at http://docs.python-requests.org/, for a limited time only.
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