Requests (software)
| Requests | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Kenneth Reitz |
| Developers | Cory Benfield, Ian Stapleton Cordasco, Nate Prewitt |
| Initial release | 14 February 2011 |
| Stable release | 2.32.5 
/ 18 August 2025 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | Python |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | requests |
Requests is an HTTP client library for the Python programming language.[1][2]
Requests is one of the most downloaded Python libraries,[1] with over 300 million monthly downloads.[3] It maps the HTTP protocol onto Python's object-oriented semantics. Requests's design has inspired and been copied by HTTP client libraries for other programming languages.[4][5][6][7] It is implemented as a wrapper for urllib3, another third-party Python HTTP library.
Kenneth Reitz, the original author, handed control over to the Python Software Foundation in 2019[8] after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015.[9]
Features
[edit]Requests supports TLS/SSL verification, cookies, compression, SOCKS, timeouts, a variety of request methods, and custom headers.[1][10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Project homepage
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- ^ "MentalHealthError: an exception occurred". Kenneth Reitz. Archived from the original on 2023-07-11. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ^ Python, Real. "Python's Requests Library (Guide) – Real Python". realpython.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.