Python 3.7.4 (default, Sep 7 2019, 18:27:02)  >>> import requests  >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/repos/psf/requests')  >>> r.json()["description"]  'A simple, yet elegant HTTP library. Handcrafted, with ♥, for the Python community.' 
 
 This software has been designed for you, with much joy, by Kenneth Reitz & is protected by The Python Software Foundation. 
 

Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built with ♥.

>>> import requests >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass')) >>> r.status_code 200 >>> r.headers['content-type'] 'application/json; charset=utf8' >>> r.encoding 'utf-8' >>> r.text u'{"type":"User"...' >>> r.json() {u'disk_usage': 368627, u'private_gists': 484, ...}

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 the most downloaded Python package today, pulling in around 14M downloads / week— according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 367_296 repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.

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

 + International Domains and URLs + Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling + Sessions with Cookie Persistence + Browser-style SSL Verification + Basic & Digest Authentication + Familiar `dict`–like Cookies + Automatic Decompression of Content + Automatic Content Decoding + Automatic Connection Pooling + Unicode Response Bodies* + Multi-part File Uploads + SOCKS Proxy Support + Connection Timeouts + Streaming Downloads + Automatic honoring of `.netrc` + Chunked HTTP Requests &, of course, rock–solid stability! 

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The recommended way to intall the requests module is to simply use pipenv (or pip, of course):

$ pipenv install requests Adding requests to Pipfile's [packages]… ✔ Installation Succeeded …

Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.4–3.8.