Requests Requests is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. >> > import requests >> > r = requests . 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 , ...} 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 packages today, pulling in around 30M downloads / week ? according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 1,000,000+ repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code. Installing Requests and Supported Versions Requests is available on PyPI: $ python -m pip install requests Requests officially supports Python 3.8+. Supported Features & Best?Practices Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP?speaking applications, for the needs of today. Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling International Domains and URLs Sessions with Cookie Persistence Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification Basic & Digest Authentication Familiar dict ?like Cookies Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding Multi-part File Uploads SOCKS Proxy Support Connection Timeouts Streaming Downloads Automatic honoring of .netrc Chunked HTTP Requests API Reference and User Guide available on Read the Docs Cloning the repository When cloning the Requests repository, you may need to add the -c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore flag to avoid an error about a bad commit (see this issue for more background): git clone -c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore https://github.com/psf/requests.git You can also apply this setting to your global Git config: git config --global fetch.fsck.badTimezone ignore
