Requests (software)

Requests
Original author(s)	Kenneth Reitz
Developer(s)	Kenneth Reitz, Cory Benfield, Ian Stapleton Cordasco, Nate Prewitt
Initial release	14 February 2011
Stable release	2.19.1 / 14 June 2018
Repository	https://github.com/requests/requests;
Written in	Python
Operating system	Cross-platform
License	Apache2 License
Website	docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

Requests is a Python HTTP library, released under the Apache2 License. The goal of the project is to make HTTP requests simpler and more human-friendly. The current version is 2.19.1^[1]

“

Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.

Python’s standard urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you need, but the API is thoroughly broken. It was built for a different time — and a different web. It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks.

Things shouldn’t be this way. Not in Python.

”

— Project homepage

Example code

    >>> import requests
    >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
    >>> r.status_code
    200
    >>> r.headers['content-type']
    'application/json; charset=utf8'
    >>> r.encoding
    'utf-8'
    >>> r.text # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
    u'{"type":"User"...'
    >>> r.json() # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
    {u'private_gists': 419, u'total_private_repos': 77, ...}

External links

References

↑ Project homepage

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[1] Project homepage