Requests (software)
Software library for HTTP connections in Python
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Requests is an HTTP client library for the Python programming language.[2][3]
| Requests | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Kenneth Reitz |
| Developers | Cory Benfield, Ian Stapleton Cordasco, Nate Prewitt |
| Initial release | 14 February 2011 |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Python |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | requests |
| Repository | github |
Requests is one of the most downloaded Python libraries,[2] with over 30 million monthly downloads.[4] It maps the HTTP protocol onto Python's object-oriented semantics. Requests's design has inspired and been copied by HTTP client libraries for other programming languages.[5][6][7][8] It is implemented as a wrapper for urllib3, another third-party Python HTTP library.
Kenneth Reitz, the original author, handed control over to the Python Software Foundation in 2019[9] after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015.[10]
Features
Requests supports TLS/SSL verification, cookies, compression, SOCKS, timeouts, a variety of request methods, and custom headers.[2][11]