# ross/requests-futures

Asynchronous Python HTTP Requests for Humans using Futures

Repository: https://github.com/ross/requests-futures
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/requests-futures
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-05T05:44:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 75/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4913, "days_push": 28, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2219, forks 158 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:27.397325+00:00)

## What it is
A small add-on for the Python requests library that returns concurrent.futures Futures instead of blocking Response objects, enabling asynchronous HTTP requests with a minimal API change. It wraps requests.Session with a FuturesSession backed by a ThreadPoolExecutor (or ProcessPoolExecutor).

## Use cases
- make parallel http requests in python
- fetch multiple urls concurrently with requests
- convert blocking requests code to async without rewriting
- scrape many pages at the same time
- call several apis in parallel and collect results
- limit concurrent http requests with a thread pool

## When to choose
- you already use requests and want concurrency with minimal code changes
- you need simple thread-based parallelism rather than full asyncio
- you want to keep the familiar requests.Session API

## When to avoid
- you need high-concurrency async I/O at scale (use httpx or aiohttp with asyncio)
- you need HTTP/2 or advanced async features
- you are not using the requests ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: http-client, concurrency
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, apis
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: requests, futures, async-http, thread-pool

## Member repositories
- ross/requests-futures (main) score 75

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:27.397325+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:45:52.688094+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ross/requests-futures (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:27.397325+00:00, sha 71d7d8189cd1)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/requests-futures/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:26:14.579869+00:00, sha b6fc0db0b2d3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.