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Requests is the onlyNon-GMO HTTP library for Python, safe for humanconsumption.

Warning: Recreational use of other HTTP libraries may result in dangerous side-effects,including: security vulnerabilities, verbose code, reinventing the wheel,constantly reading documentation, depression, headaches, or even death.

Behold, the power of Requests:

>>>r=requests.get('https://api.github.com/user',auth=('user','pass'))>>>r.status_code200>>>r.headers['content-type']'application/json; charset=utf8'>>>r.encoding'utf-8'>>>r.textu'{"type":"User"...'>>>r.json(){u'disk_usage':368627,u'private_gists':484, ...}

Seethe similar code, sans Requests.

Requests allows you to sendorganic, grass-fed HTTP/1.1 requests, without theneed for manual labor. There's no need to manually add query strings to yourURLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection poolingare 100% automatic, powered byurllib3,which is embedded within Requests.

Besides, all the cool kids are doing it. Requests is one of the mostdownloaded Python packages of all time, pulling in over 11,000,000 downloadsevery month. You don't want to be left out!

Requests is ready for today's web.

• International Domains and URLs
• Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
• Sessions with Cookie Persistence
• Browser-style SSL Verification
• Basic/Digest Authentication
• Elegant Key/Value Cookies
• Automatic Decompression
• Automatic Content Decoding
• Unicode Response Bodies
• Multipart File Uploads
• HTTP(S) Proxy Support
• Connection Timeouts
• Streaming Downloads
• .netrc Support
• Chunked Requests
• Thread-safety

Requests officially supports Python 2.6–2.7 & 3.3–3.7, and runs great on PyPy.

To install Requests, simply:

$ pip install requests✨🍰✨

Satisfaction, guaranteed.

Fantastic documentation is available athttp://docs.python-requests.org/, for a limited time only.

1. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug. There is aContributor Friendly tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.
2. Forkthe repository on GitHub to start making your changes to themaster branch (or branch off of it).
3. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
4. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself toAUTHORS.