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psf requests
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
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54,277
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10,117
Watchers: 54,277
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License: Apache License 2.0
Repository Radar Score
65 / 100
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- popularity 88
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- activity 100
- freshness 100
- community 88
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Get a quote →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 300M downloads / week — according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 4,000,000+ repositories.
Requests is available on PyPI:
$ python -m pip install requestsRequests officially supports Python 3.10+.
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
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 timestamp (see
this issue for more background):
git clone -c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore https://github.com/psf/requests.gitYou can also apply this setting to your global Git config:
git config --global fetch.fsck.badTimezone ignore
Repository Radar analysis
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Why this repository is interesting
- High absolute popularity (54,277 stars) signals broad adoption.
- Maintained recently (last push 2 weeks ago).
Who should use it
- Developers working primarily with Python
Potential use cases
- Reference or evaluate Python open-source approaches in this domain
Strengths
- Recent repository activity
- README present in our index
- Declared license: Apache License 2.0
- Substantial fork count (10,117) suggests reuse and contribution interest
Limitations / considerations
- Insights are derived from public metadata and our observations — not a substitute for code review
What to watch
- Re-check last push, issues, and releases on GitHub before production adoption
Strong signals: Strong community interest · Active maintenance
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