pycurl/pycurl

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1170 stars · 329 forks observed · 2026-09-26

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

PycURL is a thin Python binding over the libcurl multiprotocol file transfer library, exposing HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SSL, proxies, authentication, WebSockets, and libcurl's multi/share interfaces. It is very fast and feature-rich but has a low-level, C-like API aimed at advanced developers.

Use cases

• make fast http requests from python
• download files over ftp or sftp in python
• handle dozens of concurrent connections efficiently
• use proxies and custom ssl certificates with python http client
• integrate curl into an asyncio or tornado ioloop
• upload multipart forms from python
• websocket client in python

When to choose

• you need maximum performance for many concurrent transfers
• you need libcurl's advanced features like NTLM auth, proxies, or multiple protocols
• you want low-level socket control or integration with a custom event loop

When to avoid

• you want a simple, Pythonic requests-like API
• you prefer a pure-Python dependency
• you are not familiar with libcurl's C API and its learning curve

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client websocket networking web-development developer-tools networking python windows cross-platform libcurl curl-bindings file-transfer asyncio ssl proxy ftp low-level linux macos

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