An elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings, allowing you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily.
Requests
- Python
- AI and Machine Learning, Automation, Data Analytics, PLM & ERP
- Agile Methodology, Application Programming Interface (API), Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Digital Marketing, Internet of Things (IoT), Software, User experience (UX)
Features:
- Sending HTTP requests (GET,POST,PUT,DELETE,etc.),custom headers,form data and JSON payloads,session management with cookie persistence,SSL/TLS verification,connection pooling,timeout handling,file uploads,authentication (basic,digest,custom),proxy support
Pricing:
- Free
- Extremely user-friendly and intuitive API, simplifies common HTTP tasks, robust and widely used, excellent documentation, handles many complexities of HTTP automatically (e.g.,redirects,connection reuse).
- Primarily for synchronous HTTP requests (async support via libraries like `httpx` or `aiohttp`), not a web scraping framework itself (use with BeautifulSoup or Scrapy for that), minimal direct support for very low-level HTTP protocol manipulation (though possible).
Best for:
- Developers needing to interact with web services, APIs, or fetch content from websites programmatically in a simple and elegant way.