This part of the documentation covers all the interfaces of Requests. For parts where Requests depends on external libraries, we document the most important right here and provide links to the canonical documentation.

Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings.

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 POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling are 100% automatic, thanks to urllib3.

Beloved Features:

• Requests is ready for today’s web.
• Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
• International Domains and URLs
• Sessions with Cookie Persistence
• Browser-style SSL Verification
• Automatic Content Decoding
• Basic/Digest Authentication
• Elegant Key/Value Cookies
• Automatic Decompression
• Unicode Response Bodies
• HTTP(S) Proxy Support
• Multipart File Uploads
• Streaming Downloads
• Connection Timeouts
• Chunked Requests
• .netrc Support

Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.6+, and runs great on PyPy.