MagicStack/httptools

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

httptools is a Python binding for Node.js's fast HTTP parsers (llhttp and http-parser), providing request/response parser classes and a URL parsing function. It is a framework-independent library designed for building high-performance HTTP servers and protocol tooling.

Use cases

• parse http requests in python fast
• build a high-performance http server in python
• parse http responses from raw bytes
• parse urls into structured components
• handle chunked transfer encoding and http upgrades
• replace slow pure-python http parsing in an asyncio server

When to choose

• you need maximum HTTP parsing speed in Python (e.g., uvicorn-style servers)
• you want callback-driven incremental parsing of streaming HTTP data
• you need framework-independent HTTP protocol utilities

When to avoid

• you just need an HTTP client or full server framework rather than a low-level parser
• you prefer pure-Python code without C extension dependencies
• you need HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 support

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser http-server developer-tools web-development backend apis performance python cross-platform http-parser llhttp binding cython asyncio-friendly

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