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Requests: HTTP for Humans™
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==========================
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[](https://pepy.tech/project/requests)
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[](https://pypi.org/project/requests/)
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[](https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors)
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**Requests** is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings.
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Behold, the power of Requests:
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``` {.sourceCode .python}
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>>> import requests
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>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
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>>> r.status_code
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200
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>>> r.headers['content-type']
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'application/json; charset=utf8'
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>>> r.encoding
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'utf-8'
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>>> r.text
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u'{"type":"User"...'
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>>> r.json()
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{u'disk_usage': 368627, u'private_gists': 484, ...}
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```
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See [the similar code, sans Requests](https://gist.github.com/973705).
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[](http://docs.python-requests.org/)
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Requests allows you to send *organic, grass-fed* HTTP/1.1 requests,
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without the need for manual labor. There's no need to manually add query
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strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and
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HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, thanks to
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[urllib3](https://github.com/shazow/urllib3).
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Besides, all the cool kids are doing it. Requests is one of the most
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downloaded Python packages of all time, pulling in over 50,000,000
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downloads every month. You don't want to be left out!
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Feature Support
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---------------
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Requests is ready for today's web.
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- International Domains and URLs
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- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
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- Sessions with Cookie Persistence
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- Browser-style SSL Verification
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- Basic/Digest Authentication
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- Elegant Key/Value Cookies
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- Automatic Decompression
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- Automatic Content Decoding
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- Unicode Response Bodies
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- Multipart File Uploads
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- HTTP(S) Proxy Support
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- Connection Timeouts
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- Streaming Downloads
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- `.netrc` Support
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- Chunked Requests
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Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.4–3.8, and runs great on
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PyPy.
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Installation
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------------
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To install Requests, simply use [pipenv](http://pipenv.org/) (or pip, of
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course):
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``` {.sourceCode .bash}
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$ pipenv install requests
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✨🍰✨
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```
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Satisfaction guaranteed.
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Documentation
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-------------
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Fantastic documentation is available at
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<http://docs.python-requests.org/>, for a limited time only.
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How to Contribute
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-----------------
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1. Become more familiar with the project by reading our [Contributor's Guide](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/dev/contributing/) and our [development philosophy](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/dev/philosophy/).
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2. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion
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around a feature idea or a bug. There is a [Contributor
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Friendly](https://github.com/psf/requests/issues?direction=desc&labels=Contributor+Friendly&page=1&sort=updated&state=open)
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tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very
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familiar with the codebase yet.
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3. Fork [the repository](https://github.com/psf/requests) on
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GitHub to start making your changes to the **master** branch (or
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branch off of it).
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4. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature
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works as expected.
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5. Send a [pull request](https://help.github.com/en/articles/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork) and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and
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published. :) Make sure to add yourself to
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[AUTHORS](https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst).
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