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Requests: HTTP for Humans
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.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/requests.svg
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:target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests
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.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/requests.svg
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:target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/requests
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Requests is the only *Non-GMO* HTTP library for Python, safe for human
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consumption.
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**Warning:** Recreational use of other HTTP libraries may result in dangerous side-effects,
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including: security vulnerabilities, verbose code, reinventing the wheel,
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constantly reading documentation, depression, headaches, or even death.
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Behold, the power of Requests:
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.. code-block:: python
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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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See `the similar code, sans Requests <https://gist.github.com/973705>`_.
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Requests allows you to send *organic, grass-fed* HTTP/1.1 requests, without the
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need for manual labor. There's no need to manually add query strings to your
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URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling
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are 100% automatic, powered by `urllib3 <https://github.com/shazow/urllib3>`_,
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which is embedded within Requests.
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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 7,000,000 downloads
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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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- Thread-safety
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Requests supports Python 2.6 — 3.5, and runs great on PyPy.
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Installation
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------------
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To install Requests, simply:
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.. code-block:: bash
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$ pip install requests
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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 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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#. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug. There is a `Contributor Friendly`_ tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.
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#. Fork `the repository`_ on GitHub to start making your changes to the **master** branch (or branch off of it).
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#. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
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#. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS_.
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.. _`the repository`: http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
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.. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst
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.. _Contributor Friendly: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues?direction=desc&labels=Contributor+Friendly&page=1&sort=updated&state=open
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