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.