Requests

Requests is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

>>> import requests

>>> r = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass', auth=('user', 'pass'))

>>> r.status_code

200

>>> r.headers['content-type']

'application/json; charset=utf8'

>>> r.encoding

'utf-8'

>>> r.text

'{"authenticated": true, ...'

>>> r.json()

{'authenticated': True, ...}

Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your PUT & POST data — but nowadays, just use the json method!

Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages today, pulling in around 30M downloads / week— according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 1,000,000+ repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.

Installing Requests and Supported Versions

Requests is available on PyPI:

$ python -m pip install requests

Requests officially supports Python 3.8+.

Supported Features & Best–Practices

Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speaking applications, for the needs of today.

• Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling

• International Domains and URLs

• Sessions with Cookie Persistence

• Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification

• Basic & Digest Authentication

• Familiar dict–like Cookies

• Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding

• Multi-part File Uploads

• SOCKS Proxy Support

• Connection Timeouts

• Streaming Downloads

• Automatic honoring of .netrc

• Chunked HTTP Requests

API Reference and User Guide available on Read the Docs

Cloning the repository

When cloning the Requests repository, you may need to add the `-c

fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore` flag to avoid an error about a bad commit (see

this issue for more background):

git clone -c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore https://github.com/psf/requests.git

You can also apply this setting to your global Git config:

git config --global fetch.fsck.badTimezone ignore