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.
Requests is available on PyPI:
$ python -m pip install requests
Requests officially supports Python 3.7+.
Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speaking applications, for the needs of today.
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–like Cookies.netrc
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