Requests (software)

Requests
Original author(s) Kenneth Reitz
Developer(s) Kenneth Reitz
Initial release 14 February 2011 (2011-02-14)
Stable release
2.6.0 / 1 December 2014 (2014-12-01)
Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform
License Apache2 License
Website docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

Requests is a Python HTTP library, released under the Apache2 License. The goal of the project is to make HTTP requests simpler and more human-friendly. The current version is 2.6.0[1]

“

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.

 ”
— Project homepage

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

  1. ↑ Project homepage
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