Requests (software)

Requests
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 / 29 May 2024; 12 months ago
Repository	github.com/psf/requests ;
Written in	Python
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	requests.readthedocs.io

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]

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.

External links

Official website
requests on GitHub

[wikidata-7d2c8e3db5f8ac06acd850bebd87d0545ff0ae31-v18-1] "Release 2.32.3". 29 May 2024. Retrieved 24 June 2024.

[2] GitHub - psf/requests: Python HTTP Requests for Humans™ ✨🍰✨., kennethreitz.org, 2020-02-24, retrieved 2020-02-24

[3] Project homepage

[4] Beazly, David (April 2012). "R is for replacement" (PDF). Login. 37 (2). Retrieved 16 May 2020.

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