Requests (software)

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Requests
Original author Kenneth Reitz
Developers Cory Benfield, Ian Stapleton Cordasco, Nate Prewitt
Initial release14 February 2011 (2011-02-14)
Stable release
2.32.5 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 18 August 2025;53 days ago (18 August 2025)
Repository github.com/psf/requests
Written in Python
License Apache License 2.0
Website requests.readthedocs.io OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Requests is an HTTP client library for the Python programming language. [2] [3]

Contents

Requests is one of the most downloaded Python libraries, [2] with over 300 million monthly downloads. [4] 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. [5] [6] [7] [8] 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 [9] after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015. [10]

Features

Requests supports TLS/SSL verification, cookies, compression, SOCKS, timeouts, a variety of request methods, and custom headers. [2] [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Release 2.32.5". 18 August 2025. Retrieved 13 September 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Project homepage
  3. ↑ Beazly, David (April 2012). "R is for replacement" (PDF). Login. 37 (2). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  4. ↑ "requests download stats". PePy. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  5. ↑ "Requests for PHP | Requests for PHP". requests.ryanmccue.info. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  6. ↑ "Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP". httr.r-lib.org. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  7. ↑ Duan, Daniel (2023-06-03), Just , retrieved 2023-06-07
  8. ↑ httprb/http, http.rb, 2023-06-06, retrieved 2023-06-07
  9. ↑ "Project maintenance · Issue #5149 · psf/requests". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  10. ↑ "MentalHealthError: an exception occurred". Kenneth Reitz. Archived from the original on 2023-07-11. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  11. ↑ Python, Real. "Python's Requests Library (Guide) – Real Python". realpython.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
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