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# Requests
**Requests** is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
```python
>>> 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
'{"type":"User"...'
>>> r.json()
{'disk_usage': 368627, '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 one of the most downloaded Python package today, pulling in
around `14M downloads / week`— according to GitHub, Requests is currently
[depended upon] by `500,000+` repositories. You may certainly put your
trust in this code.
[Downloads]
[Supported Versions]
[Contributors]
## Installing Requests and Supported Versions
Requests is available on PyPI:
```console
$ python -m pip install requests
```
Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.6+.
## Supported Features & Best–Practices
Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable
HTTP–speaking applications, for the needs of today.
- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
- International Domains and URLs
- Sessions with Cookie Persistence
- Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification
- Basic & Digest Authentication
- Familiar `dict`–like Cookies
- Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding
- Multi-part File Uploads
- SOCKS Proxy Support
- Connection Timeouts
- Streaming Downloads
- Automatic honoring of `.netrc`
- Chunked HTTP Requests
## API Reference and User Guide available on [Read the Docs]
[Read the Docs]
## Cloning the repository
When cloning the Requests repository, you may need to add the `-c
fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore` flag to avoid an error about a bad commit
(see
[this issue] for more background):
```shell
git clone -c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore
https://github.com/psf/requests.git
```
You can also apply this setting to your global Git config:
```shell
git config --global fetch.fsck.badTimezone ignore
```
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[Kenneth Reitz] [Python Software Foundation]
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