requests

GitHub describes it as A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.. The repository metadata lists Python as its primary language. The metadata lists the Apache-2.0 license. This article stays within the project description and details documented in the GitHub repository README.

GitHub describes it as A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.. The repository metadata lists Python as its primary language. The metadata lists the Apache-2.0 license. The README describes the project this way: 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!

The README section "Requests" states: Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages today, pulling in around 300M downloads / week , according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 4,000,000+ repositories.

The README section "Supported Features & Best, Practices" states: Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP, speaking applications, for the needs of today.

The README section "Supported Features & Best, Practices" states: - 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

The repository README is the source for this review. It does not replace a local installation or an independent test.

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