Requests
v2.22.0

Requests: HTTP for Humans™

Release v. (Installation)

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Requests is the only Non-GMO HTTP library for Python, safe for human consumption.

Note

Requests 2.x is officially in maintenance-mode only. This means we only respond to CVE-level tickets. All of our limited available attention / energy is being allocated towards the development of Requests III. Technical contributions are welcome!

Behold, the power of 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
u'{"type":"User"...'
>>> r.json()
{u'private_gists': 419, u'total_private_repos': 77, ...}

See similar code, sans Requests.

Requests allows you to send organic, grass-fed HTTP/1.1 requests, without the need for manual labor. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, thanks to urllib3.

User Testimonials

Nike, Twitter, Spotify, Microsoft, Amazon, Lyft, BuzzFeed, Reddit, The NSA, Her Majesty’s Government, Google, Twilio, Runscope, Mozilla, Heroku, PayPal, NPR, Obama for America, Transifex, Native Instruments, The Washington Post, SoundCloud, Kippt, Sony, and Federal U.S. Institutions that prefer to be unnamed claim to use Requests internally.

Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask—

Requests is the perfect example how beautiful an API can be with the right level of abstraction.

Matt DeBoard—

I’m going to get Kenneth Reitz’s Python requests module tattooed on my body, somehow. The whole thing.

Daniel Greenfeld—

Nuked a 1200 LOC spaghetti code library with 10 lines of code thanks to Kenneth Reitz’s Requests library. Today has been AWESOME.

Kenny Meyers—

Python HTTP: When in doubt, or when not in doubt, use Requests. Beautiful, simple, Pythonic.

Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages of all time, pulling in over 400,000 downloads each day. Join the party!

If your organization uses Requests internally, consider supporting the development of 3.0. Your generosity will be greatly appreciated, and help drive the project forward into the future.

Beloved Features

Requests is ready for today’s web.

  • Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling

  • International Domains and URLs

  • Sessions with Cookie Persistence

  • Browser-style SSL Verification

  • Automatic Content Decoding

  • Basic/Digest Authentication

  • Elegant Key/Value Cookies

  • Automatic Decompression

  • Unicode Response Bodies

  • HTTP(S) Proxy Support

  • Multipart File Uploads

  • Streaming Downloads

  • Connection Timeouts

  • Chunked Requests

  • .netrc Support

Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.4–3.7, and runs great on PyPy.

The User Guide

This part of the documentation, which is mostly prose, begins with some background information about Requests, then focuses on step-by-step instructions for getting the most out of Requests.

The Community Guide

This part of the documentation, which is mostly prose, details the Requests ecosystem and community.

The API Documentation / Guide

If you are looking for information on a specific function, class, or method, this part of the documentation is for you.

The Contributor Guide

If you want to contribute to the project, this part of the documentation is for you.

There are no more guides. You are now guideless. Good luck.