Python 3.7.4 (default, Sep  7 2019, 18:27:02)
     >>> import requests
     >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/repos/psf/requests')
     >>> r.json()["description"]
     'A simple, yet elegant HTTP library. Handcrafted, with ♥, for the Python community.'
    

    

This software has been designed for you, with much joy,
by Kenneth Reitz & is protected by The Python Software Foundation.
   

Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built with ♥.

>>> 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
u'{"type":"User"...'
>>> r.json()
{u'disk_usage': 368627, u'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 the most downloaded Python package today, pulling in around 14M downloads / week— according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 367_296 repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.

Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speak applications, for the needs of today.

           International Domains and URLs         Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
           Sessions with Cookie Persistence       Browser-style SSL Verification
           Basic & Digest Authentication          Familiar `dict`–like Cookies
           Automatic Decompression of Content     Automatic Content Decoding
           Automatic Connection Pooling           Unicode Response Bodies*
           Multi-part File Uploads                SOCKS Proxy Support
           Connection Timeouts                    Streaming Downloads
           Automatic honoring of `.netrc`         Chunked HTTP Requests

                            &, of course, rock–solid stability!

✨ 🍰 ✨            

The recommended way to intall the requests module is to simply use pipenv (or pip, of course):

$ pipenv install requests
Adding requests to Pipfile's [packages]…
✔ Installation Succeeded
…

Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.4–3.8.