Requests (software)

Software library for HTTP connections in Python

Requests

Original author(s)| Kenneth Reitz
Developer(s)| Cory Benfield, Ian Stapleton Cordasco, Nate Prewitt
Initial release| 14 February 2011 (2011-02-14)
Stable release|

2.32.4[1]  / 9 June 2025; 49 days ago (9 June 2025)

Repository| github.com/psf/requests
Written in| Python
License| Apache License 2.0
Website| requests.readthedocs.io

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]

## Features

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

## References

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1. ^ "Release 2.32.4". 9 June 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
2. ^ a b c 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. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
11. ^ Python, Real. "Python's Requests Library (Guide) – Real Python". realpython.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.

## External links

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* Official website
* requests on GitHub