requests

Requests is a widely used Python HTTP library designed to make sending HTTP/1.1 requests simple and elegant. It provides a clean, intuitive API that removes much of the manual work involved in building requests, handling URLs, query strings, form-encoded data, and JSON payloads. The library supports a broad set of features suited for building robust HTTP-based applications, including keep-alive and connection pooling, international domains and URLs, sessions with cookie persistence, browser-style TLS/SSL verification, basic and digest authentication, dictionary-like cookie handling, automatic content decompression and decoding, multi-part file uploads, SOCKS proxy support, connection timeouts, streaming downloads, automatic .netrc handling, and chunked HTTP requests. Requests is distributed through PyPI and can be installed with `python -m pip install requests`. The project officially supports Python 3.10 and newer. It is one of the most downloaded Python packages, with roughly 300 million downloads per week and over four million dependent repositories on GitHub. The repository also includes instructions for cloning, noting that a special Git flag may be needed to avoid errors related to a bad commit timestamp. The project is maintained under the Python Software Foundation and originated with Kenneth Reitz. For developers, Requests serves as a foundational tool for interacting with web APIs, scraping, testing, and general HTTP communication in Python. Its stable and well-documented design makes it a common dependency in many Python projects and frameworks.