Requests (software)

Requests

Original author(s)	Kenneth Reitz
Developer(s)	Kenneth Reitz, Cory Benfield, Ian Stapleton Cordasco, Nate Prewitt
Initial release	14 February 2011 (2011-02-14)
Stable release	2.26.0[1]  / 13 July 2021; 5 months ago (13 July 2021)
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[]

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>>> 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, ...}

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