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A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
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# Requests



**Requests** is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.



```python

>>> import requests

>>> r = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass', auth=('user', 'pass'))

>>> r.status_code

200

>>> r.headers['content-type']

'application/json; charset=utf8'

>>> r.encoding

'utf-8'

>>> r.text

'{"authenticated": true, ...'

>>> r.json()

{'authenticated': True, ...}

```



Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your `PUT` & `POST` data — but nowadays, just use the `json` method!



Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages today, pulling in around `30M downloads / week`— according to GitHub, Requests is currently [depended upon](https://github.com/psf/requests/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS01NzA4OTExNg%3D%3D) by `1,000,000+` repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.



[![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/requests/month)](https://pepy.tech/project/requests)

[![Supported Versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/requests.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/requests)

[![Contributors](https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/psf/requests.svg)](https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors)



## Installing Requests and Supported Versions



Requests is available on PyPI:



```console

$ python -m pip install requests

```



Requests officially supports Python 3.7+.



## Supported Features & Best–Practices



Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speaking applications, for the needs of today.



- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling

- International Domains and URLs

- Sessions with Cookie Persistence

- Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification

- Basic & Digest Authentication

- Familiar `dict`–like Cookies

- Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding

- Multi-part File Uploads

- SOCKS Proxy Support

- Connection Timeouts

- Streaming Downloads

- Automatic honoring of `.netrc`

- Chunked HTTP Requests



## API Reference and User Guide available on [Read the Docs](https://requests.readthedocs.io)



[![Read the Docs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/requests/main/ext/ss.png)](https://requests.readthedocs.io)



## Cloning the repository



When cloning the Requests repository, you may need to add the `-c

fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore` flag to avoid an error about a bad commit (see

[this issue](https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2690) for more background):



```shell

git clone -c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore https://github.com/psf/requests.git

```



You can also apply this setting to your global Git config:



```shell

git config --global fetch.fsck.badTimezone ignore

```



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