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 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, ...}

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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!

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!

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
Adding requests to Pipfile's [packages]…
✔ Installation Succeeded
…

Satisfaction guaranteed.

Documentation

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

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