niquests 3.3.4

Python HTTP for Humans.

Niquests is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. It is a drop-in replacement for Requests that is no longer under feature freeze.

Niquests, is the “Safest, Fastest^*, Easiest, and Most advanced” Python HTTP Client. Production Ready!

✔️ Try before you switch: See Multiplexed in Action
📖 See why you should switch: Read about 10 reasons why

>>> import niquests
>>> r = niquests.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, ...}
>>> r
<Response HTTP/2 [200]>
>>> r.ocsp_verified
True

Niquests allows you to send HTTP 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!

Installing Niquests and Supported Versions

Niquests is available on PyPI:

$ python -m pip install niquests

Niquests officially supports Python or PyPy 3.7+.

Supported Features & Best–Practices

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

• Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding
• OS truststore by default, no more certifi!
• OCSP Certificate Revocation Verification
• In-memory certificates (CAs, and mTLS)
• Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification
• Sessions with Cookie Persistence
• Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
• International Domains and URLs
• Automatic honoring of .netrc
• Basic & Digest Authentication
• Familiar dict–like Cookies
• Object-oriented headers
• Multi-part File Uploads
• Chunked HTTP Requests
• Fully type-annotated!
• SOCKS Proxy Support
• Connection Timeouts
• Streaming Downloads
• HTTP/2 by default
• HTTP/3 over QUIC
• Multiplexed!
• Async!

Why did we pursue this?

For many years now, Requests has been frozen and blocked millions of developers, left in a vegetative state regarding evolutions in the field.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel all over again, HTTP client Requests is well established and really plaisant in its usage. We believe that Requests have the most inclusive, and developer friendly interfaces. We intend to keep it that way. As long as we can, long live Niquests!

How about a nice refresher with a mere CTRL+H import requests to import niquests as requests ?

💼 For Enterprise

Professional support for Niquests is available as part of the Tidelift Subscription. Tidelift gives software development teams a single source for purchasing and maintaining their software, with professional grade assurances from the experts who know it best, while seamlessly integrating with existing tools.

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^(*) performance measured when leveraging a multiplexed connection with or without uses of any form of concurrency as of november 2023. The research compared httpx, requests, aiohttp against niquests.

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