wreq

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An ergonomic and modular Python HTTP Client for high-fidelity protocol matching, featuring customizable TLS, JA3/JA4, and HTTP/2 signature capabilities, powered by wreq.

Features

• Async and Blocking Clients
• Plain bodies, JSON, urlencoded, multipart
• HTTP Trailer
• Cookie Store
• Redirect Policy
• Original Header
• Rotating Proxies
• Connection Pooling
• Streaming Transfers
• Zero-Copy Transfers
• WebSocket Upgrade
• HTTPS via BoringSSL
• Free-Threaded Safety
• Automatic Decompression
• Certificate Store (CAs & mTLS)

Example

The following example uses the asyncio runtime with wreq installed via pip:

pip install wreq

And then the code:

import asyncio
from wreq import Client, Emulation


async def main():
    async with Client(emulation=Emulation.Chrome154) as c:
        async with c.get("https://pingly.us.kg/api/all") as r:
            r.raise_for_status()
            print(await r.text())


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Additional learning resources include:

• Examples
• DeepWiki
• Documentation

Behavior

1. HTTP/2 over TLS

Due to the complexity of TLS encryption and the widespread adoption of HTTP/2, browser fingerprints such as JA3, JA4, and Akamai cannot be reliably emulated using simple fingerprint strings. Instead of parsing and emulating these string-based fingerprints, wreq provides fine-grained control over TLS and HTTP/2 extensions and settings for precise browser behavior emulation.

2. Device Emulation

TLS and HTTP/2 fingerprints are often identical across various browser models because these underlying protocols evolve slower than browser release cycles. 100+ browser device emulation profiles are maintained in wreq.

Building

1. Platforms

• Linux(glibc/musl): x86_64, aarch64, armv7, i686
• macOS: x86_64,aarch64
• Windows: x86_64,i686,aarch64
• Android: aarch64, x86_64

2. Development

Install the BoringSSL build environment by referring to boringssl.

# on ubuntu or debian
sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake perl pkg-config libclang-dev musl-tools git
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
pip install uv maturin

uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# development
maturin develop --uv

# build wheels
maturin build --release

Benchmark

Our benchmark suite compares Python HTTP clients over HTTPS HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. It tests complete and streamed uploads, reading every response to the end. The results include client versions and machine details so you can check the conditions behind each measurement. Performance varies by workload and environment.

Services

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License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

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