Requests (software)
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| Original author(s) | Kenneth Reitz |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Kenneth Reitz, Cory Benfield, Ian Stapleton Cordasco, Nate Prewitt |
| Initial release | Error: df must be either "yes" or "y" (help) |
| Stable release | 2.32.3[1] 
/ 29 May 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Python |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | requests |
Requests is a HTTP library for the Python programming language. The goal of the project is to make HTTP requests simpler and more human-friendly. The current version is 2.26.0.[2][3] Requests is released under the Apache License 2.0.
Requests is one of the most popular Python libraries that is not included with Python. It has been proposed that Requests be distributed with Python by default.[4]
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.
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, ...}
References
- ^ "Release 2.32.3". 29 May 2024. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
- ^ GitHub - psf/requests: Python HTTP Requests for Humans™ ✨🍰✨., kennethreitz.org, 2020-02-24, retrieved 2020-02-24
- ^ Project homepage
- ^ Beazly, David (April 2012). "R is for replacement" (PDF). Login. 37 (2). Retrieved 16 May 2020.