retryhttp

Zero-config HTTP retries with exponential backoff, jitter, and OAuth2 token refresh — for both httpx and requests.

from retryhttp import RetryClient

with RetryClient(token_refresher=lambda: fetch_token()) as client:
    resp = client.get("https://api.example.com/data")

Why

Every team rewrites retry logic from scratch. retryhttp gives you:

• Exponential backoff with full jitter (AWS-recommended strategy)
• Token refresh hooks — pass a callable, 401s are handled automatically
• Per-status-code retry policies — retry 503 but not 404
• Network error retries — connection errors and timeouts included
• Async support via AsyncRetryClient
• Drop-in replacements — subclasses httpx.Client and requests.Session, so existing code works unchanged

Install

# httpx support
pip install "retryhttp[httpx]"

# requests support
pip install "retryhttp[requests]"

# both
pip install "retryhttp[all]"

Usage

httpx (sync)

from retryhttp import RetryClient, RetryConfig

config = RetryConfig(
    max_attempts=5,
    backoff_base=0.5,
    backoff_max=30.0,
    retry_statuses=frozenset({429, 500, 502, 503, 504}),
)

def get_token() -> str:
    # call your auth server
    return "new-bearer-token"

with RetryClient(config=config, token_refresher=get_token) as client:
    resp = client.get("https://api.example.com/resource")
    print(resp.json())

httpx (async)

import asyncio
from retryhttp import AsyncRetryClient

async def get_token() -> str:
    return "new-bearer-token"

async def main():
    async with AsyncRetryClient(token_refresher=get_token) as client:
        resp = await client.get("https://api.example.com/resource")
        print(resp.json())

asyncio.run(main())

requests

from retryhttp import RetrySession

with RetrySession(token_refresher=lambda: "new-token") as session:
    resp = session.get("https://api.example.com/resource")

Configuration

RetryConfig controls all retry behaviour:

How backoff works

Uses AWS's Full Jitter strategy:

cap = min(backoff_max, backoff_base × 2^attempt)
sleep = random(0, cap)

This avoids thundering-herd problems when many clients retry simultaneously.

Exceptions

from retryhttp import RetryExhausted

try:
    client.get("https://api.example.com")
except RetryExhausted as e:
    print(f"Failed after {e.attempts} attempts, last status: {e.last_status}")

Development

git clone https://github.com/praneethvedantham/retryhttp
cd retryhttp
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

License

MIT