psf/requests

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A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. observed · 2026-09-25

github.com/psf/requests · homepage · Python · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-09-25

Health v2 · maintenance only

90/100

Activity 96
Release rhythm 77
Longevity 100

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

gap_med: 23.0
age_days: 5728
days_rel: 159
days_push: 29
n_releases_24m: 7

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

54342 stars · 10838 forks observed · 2026-09-25

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Requests is a widely-used Python library for making HTTP/1.1 requests with a simple, human-friendly API. It handles connection pooling, sessions, cookies, authentication, TLS verification, and content decoding automatically.

Use cases

call a REST API from Python
download files over HTTP with streaming
send POST requests with JSON bodies
scrape web pages with proper headers and cookies
handle authenticated API requests with basic or digest auth
manage persistent sessions with cookie persistence
upload multipart files to a server

When to choose

you need a simple, ergonomic HTTP client in Python
you want automatic JSON encoding/decoding, cookies, and auth out of the box
you need broad community support and battle-tested reliability

When to avoid

you need async HTTP requests (use httpx or aiohttp instead)
you want to avoid third-party dependencies and prefer the stdlib urllib
you need HTTP/2 support

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client web-development developer-tools apis python cross-platform http rest-client sessions cookies urllib3

3 sources

readme: https://github.com/psf/requests · fetched 2026-09-25 · 2a9268c9be5f
homepage: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ · fetched 2026-09-07 · 62b0ae40e3d5
registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/requests/json · fetched 2026-09-07 · f464bb309ccf

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
psf/requests	main	90

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