Requests (software)


Requests is a Python HTTP library, released under the Apache License 2.0. The goal of the project is to make HTTP requests simpler and more human-friendly. The current version is 2.23.0
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.

Example code


>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.headers
'application/json; charset=utf8'
>>> r.encoding
'utf-8'
>>> r.text # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
u'