Python 3.7.4 (default, Sep 7 2019, 18:27:02)>>> import requests>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/repos/psf/requests')>>> r.json()["description"]'A simple, yet elegant HTTP library.'This software has been designed for you, with much joy, by Kenneth Reitz & is protected by The Python Software Foundation.
Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built with
>>> 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
'{"type":"User"...'
>>> r.json()
{'disk_usage': 368627, 'private_gists': 484, ...}
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 the most downloaded Python package today, pulling in around 14M downloads / week— according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 367_296 repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.
Supported Features & Best–Practices
Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speak applications, for the needs of today.
+ International Domains and URLs + Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
+ Sessions with Cookie Persistence + Browser-style SSL Verification
+ Basic & Digest Authentication + Familiar `dict`–like Cookies
+ Automatic Decompression of Content + Automatic Content Decoding
+ Automatic Connection Pooling + Unicode Response Bodies*
+ Multi-part File Uploads + SOCKS Proxy Support
+ Connection Timeouts + Streaming Downloads
+ Automatic honoring of `.netrc` + Chunked HTTP Requests
&, of course, rock–solid stability!
Requests Module Installation
The recommended way to intall the requests module is to simply use pipenv (or pip, of
course):
$ pipenv install requests
Adding requests to Pipfile's [packages]…
✔ Installation Succeeded
…Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.5+.
P.S. — Documentation is available at requests.readthedocs.io.
