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Python package for object oriented headers, HTTP/1.1 style. Also parse headers.

Project description

HTTP Headers for Humans 👋

Object oriented headers, parser and builder.
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❓ Why

No matter if you are currently building software using HTTP or IMAP (message, email), you should not worry about easily accessing header and associated attributes, adjectives or values.

using kiss-headers from python interpreter

I have seen so many chunks of code trying to deal with these headers; often I saw this implementation:

charset = headers['Content-Type'].split(';')[-1].split('=')[-1].replace('"', '')

No more of that!

🔪 Features

kiss-headers is a basic library that allow you to handle headers as objects.

  • A backwards-compatible syntax using bracket style.
  • Capability to alter headers using simple, human-readable operator notation + and -.
  • Flexibility if headers are from an email or HTTP, use as you need with one library.
  • Ability to parse any object and extract recognized headers from it, it also supports UTF-8 encoded headers.
  • Fully type-annotated.
  • Provide great auto-completion in Python interpreter or any capable IDE.
  • No dependencies. And never will be.
  • 90% test coverage.

Plus all the features that you would expect from handling headers...

  • Properties syntax for headers and attribute in header.
  • Supports headers and attributes OneToOne, OneToMany and ManySquashedIntoOne.
  • Capable of parsing bytes, fp, str, dict, email.Message, requests.Response, httpx._models.Response and urllib3.HTTPResponse.
  • Automatically unquote and unfold the value of an attribute when retrieving it.
  • Keep headers and attributes ordering.
  • Case insensitive with header name and attribute key.
  • Character - equal _ in addition of above feature.
  • Any syntax you like, we like.

✨ Installation

Whatever you like, use pipenv or pip, it simply works. Requires Python 3.6+ installed.

pip install kiss-headers --upgrade

🍰 Usage

Quick start

parse_it() method takes bytes, str, fp, dict, email.Message or even a requests.Response or httpx._models.Response itself and returns a Headers object.

from requests import get
from kiss_headers import parse_it

response = get('https://www.google.fr')
headers = parse_it(response)

headers.content_type.charset  # output: ISO-8859-1
# Its the same as
headers["content-type"]["charset"]  # output: ISO-8859-1

Do not forget that headers are not OneToOne. One header can be repeated multiple times and attributes can have multiple values within the same header.

from kiss_headers import parse_it

my_cookies = """set-cookie: 1P_JAR=2020-03-16-21; expires=Wed, 15-Apr-2020 21:27:31 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.fr; Secure; SameSite=none
set-cookie: CONSENT=WP.284b10; expires=Fri, 01-Jan-2038 00:00:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.fr"""

headers = parse_it(my_cookies)

type(headers.set_cookie)  # output: list
headers.set_cookie[0].expires # output: Wed, 15-Apr-2020 21:27:31 GMT
headers.set_cookie[0]._1p_jar # output: 2020-03-16-21
headers.set_cookie[0]["1P_JAR"] # output: 2020-03-16-21

Since v2.1 you can transform an Header object to its target CustomHeader subclass to access more methods.

from kiss_headers import parse_it, get_polymorphic, SetCookie

my_cookies = """set-cookie: 1P_JAR=2020-03-16-21; expires=Wed, 15-Apr-2020 21:27:31 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.fr; Secure; SameSite=none
set-cookie: CONSENT=WP.284b10; expires=Fri, 01-Jan-2038 00:00:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.fr"""

headers = parse_it(my_cookies)

type(headers.set_cookie[0])  # output: Header

set_cookie = get_polymorphic(headers.set_cookie[0], SetCookie)

type(set_cookie)  # output: SetCookie

set_cookie.get_cookie_name()  # output: 1P_JAR
set_cookie.get_expire()  # output: datetime(...)

Just a note: Accessing a header that has the same name as a reserved keyword must be done this way :

headers = parse_it('From: Ousret; origin=www.github.com\nIS: 1\nWhile: Not-True')

# this flavour
headers.from_ # to access From, just add a single underscore to it
# or.. just using :
headers['from']

🛠️ Create headers from objects

Introduced in the version 2.0, kiss-headers now allow you to create headers with more than 40+ ready-to-use, fully documented, header objects.

1st example usage

from kiss_headers import Headers, Authorization
from requests import get

response = get("https://httpbin.org/bearer", headers=Headers(Authorization("Bearer", "qwerty")))
print(response.status_code)  # 200

2nd example usage

from kiss_headers import *

headers = (
    Host("developer.mozilla.org")
    + UserAgent(
        "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0"
    )
    + Accept("text/html")
    + Accept("application/xhtml+xml")
    + Accept("application/xml", qualifier=0.9)
    + Accept(qualifier=0.8)
    + AcceptLanguage("en-US")
    + AcceptLanguage("en", qualifier=0.5)
    + AcceptEncoding("gzip")
    + AcceptEncoding("deflate")
    + AcceptEncoding("br")
    + Referer("https://developer.mozilla.org/testpage.html")
    + Connection(should_keep_alive=True)
    + UpgradeInsecureRequests()
    + IfModifiedSince("Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:36:04 GMT")
    + IfNoneMatch("c561c68d0ba92bbeb8b0fff2a9199f722e3a621a")
    + CacheControl(max_age=0)
)

raw_headers = str(headers)

raw_headers now retain the following :

Host: developer.mozilla.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Accept: text/html, application/xhtml+xml, application/xml; q="0.9", */*; q="0.8"
Accept-Language: en-US, en; q="0.5"
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Referer: https://developer.mozilla.org/testpage.html
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
If-Modified-Since: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:36:04 GMT
If-None-Match: "c561c68d0ba92bbeb8b0fff2a9199f722e3a621a"
Cache-Control: max-age="0"

See the complete list of available header class in the full documentation. Also, you can create your own custom header object using the class kiss_headers.CustomHeader.

📜 Documentation

See the full documentation for advanced usages : www.kiss-headers.tech

👤 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are very much welcome.
Feel free to check issues page if you want to contribute.

Firstly, after getting your own local copy, run ./scripts/install to initialize your virtual environment. Then run ./scripts/check before you commit, make sure everything is still working.

Remember to keep it sweet and simple when contributing to this project.

📝 License

Copyright © 2020 Ahmed TAHRI @Ousret.
This project is MIT licensed.

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