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<div align=”left”> <p></p> <code> Python 3.7.4 (default, Sep 7 2019, 18:27:02)</code> <code> >>> <strong>import requests</strong></code> <code> >>> r = requests.get(’https://api.github.com/repos/psf/requests’)</code> <code> >>> r.json()[“description”]</code> <code> ‘A simple, yet elegant HTTP library.’</code> </div>

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This software has been designed for you, with much joy, by <a href=”https://kennethreitz.org/”>Kenneth Reitz</a> & is protected by The <a href=”https://www.python.org/psf/”>Python Software Foundation</a>.

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<p align=”center”><strong>Requests</strong> is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built with ♥.</p>

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`python >>> import requests >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass')) >>> r.status_code 200 >>> r.headers['content-type'] 'application/json; charset=utf8' >>> r.encoding 'utf-8' >>> r.text '{"type":"User"...' >>> r.json() {'disk_usage': 368627, 'private_gists': 484, ...} `


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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 package today, pulling in around 14M downloads / week— according to GitHub, Requests is currently [depended upon](https://github.com/psf/requests/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS01NzA4OTExNg%3D%3D) by 500,000+ repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p align=”center”><a href=”https://pepy.tech/project/requests” rel=”nofollow”><img src=”https://camo.githubusercontent.com/e1dedc9f5ce5cd6b6c699f33d2e812daadcf3645/68747470733a2f2f706570792e746563682f62616467652f7265717565737473” alt=”Downloads” data-canonical-src=”https://pepy.tech/badge/requests” style=”max-width:100%;”></a> <a href=”https://pypi.org/project/requests/” rel=”nofollow”><img src=”https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6d78aeec0a9a1cfe147ad064bfb99069e298e29b/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f707970692f707976657273696f6e732f72657175657374732e737667” alt=”image” data-canonical-src=”https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/requests.svg” style=”max-width:100%;”></a> <a href=”https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors”><img src=”https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a70ea15870b38bba9203b969f6a6b7e7845fbb8a/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f636f6e7472696275746f72732f7073662f72657175657374732e737667” alt=”image” data-canonical-src=”https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/psf/requests.svg” style=”max-width:100%;”></a></p>

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<h2 align=”center”>Supported Features & Best–Practices</h2>

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

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  • International Domains and URLs + Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling

  • Sessions with Cookie Persistence + Browser-style SSL Verification

  • Basic & Digest Authentication + Familiar dict–like Cookies

  • Automatic Decompression of Content + Automatic Content Decoding

  • Automatic Connection Pooling + Unicode Response Bodies<super>*</super>

  • Multi-part File Uploads + SOCKS Proxy Support

  • Connection Timeouts + Streaming Downloads

  • Automatic honoring of .netrc + Chunked HTTP Requests

    &, of course, rock–solid stability!

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Requests Module Installation

The recommended way to install the requests module is to simply use [pipenv](https://pipenv.kennethreitz.org) (or pip, of course):

`console $ pipenv install requests Adding requests to Pipfile's [packages]… ✔ Installation Succeeded … `

Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.5+.


## P.S. — Documentation is available at [requests.readthedocs.io](https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

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