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Restkit is an HTTP resource kit for Python. It allows you to easily access to HTTP resource and build objects around it. It’s the base of couchdbkit a Python CouchDB framework.

Restkit is a full HTTP client using pure socket calls and its own HTTP parser. It’s not based on httplib or urllib2.

Features

  • Full compatible HTTP client for HTTP 1.0 and 1.1

  • Threadsafe

  • Use pure socket calls and its own HTTP parser (It’s not based on httplib or urllib2)

  • Map HTTP resources to Python objects

  • Read and Send on the fly

  • Reuses connections

  • Eventlet and Gevent support

  • Support Chunked transfer encoding in both ways.

  • Support Basic Authentification and OAuth.

  • Multipart forms and url-encoded forms

  • Streaming support

  • Proxy handling

  • HTTP Filters, you can hook requests in responses with your own callback

  • Compatible with Python 2.x (>= 2.6)

Documentation

http://restkit.readthedocs.org

Installation

restkit requires Python 2.x superior to 2.6 (Python 3 support is coming soon)

To install restkit using pip you must make sure you have a recent version of distribute installed:

$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ sudo python distribute_setup.py
$ easy_install pip

To install from source, run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/benoitc/restkit.git
$ cd gaffer
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python setup.py install

From pypi:

$ pip install restkit

License

restkit is available under the MIT license.

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