Requests: HTTP for humans
Requests is the classic Python library for calling web APIs and downloading pages, with a simple API for GET and POST requests, headers, JSON and sessions.
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On GitHub: A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
Open on GitHubRequests wraps the details of HTTP in a small, readable API: requests.get(url, params=..., timeout=10) returns a response with .status_code, .text and .json(). It handles redirects, cookies, form and JSON bodies, authentication and connection reuse through requests.Session. It is maintained under the Python Software Foundation’s GitHub organization and is one of the most commonly installed third-party packages.
Reach for it in automation scripts that talk to REST APIs, webhooks or download files. Always pass a timeout (Requests waits indefinitely by default) and call response.raise_for_status() to turn HTTP errors into exceptions. If you need async support or HTTP/2, look at alternatives such as HTTPX; if you cannot install packages at all, the standard library’s urllib.request works with more boilerplate.
Requests is not part of the standard library, so it is a typical source of ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests'. Install it inside a virtual environment with python -m pip install requests, as described in the venv and ModuleNotFoundError articles.
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