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Teams, individuals and developers looking for a solution providing a HTTP library to send requests
About requests
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 30M downloads/week, according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 1,000,000+ repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code. Requests is available on PyPI. Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speaking applications, for the needs of today. Automatic content decompression and decoding. International domains and URLs. Sessions with cookie persistence. Browser-style TLS/SSL verification. Basic & digest authentication, and familiar dict–like cookies. Multi-part file uploads. SOCKS proxy support. Connection timeouts and streaming downloads.
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Python Software Foundation
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pypi.org/project/requests/
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