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    psf/requests

    A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

    networking
    client
    cookies
    forhumans
    http
    humans
    Python
    Apache-2.0
    54.7K stars
    11.5K forks
    1.3K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 7, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 176 days ago, with 400 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a simple and elegant Python HTTP library for sending HTTP/1.1 requests with ease.
    • Simplifies HTTP requests by handling query strings, form encoding, authentication, and content decoding automatically.
    • Use for integrating RESTful API calls in Python applications with minimal code.
    • Use for managing sessions with cookie persistence and authentication in web scraping or automation tasks.
    • Use for handling file uploads, streaming downloads, and proxy support in networked Python programs.

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Requests is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

    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 300M downloads / week — according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 4,000,000+ repositories.

    Requests officially supports Python 3.10+.

    Excerpt from the psf/requests README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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