python requests doc

Requests is an Apache2 Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.

Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose and cumbersome. Python's builtin urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly broken. 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.

>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))

>>> r.status_code

204

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

'application/json'

>>> r.text

...

See the same code, without Requests.

Requests allow you to send HTTP/1.1 requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It's powered by httplib and urllib3, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.

Features

International Domains and URLs

Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling

Sessions with Cookie Persistence

Browser-style SSL Verification

Basic/Digest Authentication

Elegant Key/Value Cookies

Automatic Decompression

Unicode Response Bodies

Multipart File Uploads

Connection Timeouts

Thread-safety

HTTP(S) proxy support

Installation

To install Requests, simply:

$ pip install requests

Or, if you absolutely must:

$ easy_install requests

But, you really shouldn't do that.