Requests (software)

Requests
Original author(s)Kenneth Reitz
Developer(s)Cory Benfield, Ian Stapleton Cordasco, Nate Prewitt
Initial release14 February 2011 (2011-02-14)
Stable release
2.31.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 22 May 2023 (22 May 2023)
Repositorygithub.com/psf/requests
Written inPython
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websiterequests.readthedocs.io Edit this at Wikidata

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

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]

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