httptools

A collection of framework independent HTTP protocol utils.

httptools Permissive license MIT Active ★ 1,322 v0.8.0 released 2026-05-25

Install

httptools on PyPI

pip

pip install httptools

uv

uv add httptools

poetry

poetry add httptools

Package facts

License	MIT (permissive)
Python support	supports the current Python release (>=3.9)
Install friction	medium — platform-specific wheel
Runtime dependencies	none
Maintenance	actively maintained — 80 days since the last release
Last repo commit	2026-05-25
First released	2015-10-29
Popularity	one of the top 1,000 most-downloaded packages on PyPI (30-day window, as of 2026-08-13)
Known vulnerabilities	none known (OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-13)

Evidence: httptools-0.8.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp310-cp310-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp310-cp310-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp310-cp310-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp310-cp310-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp311-cp311-macosx_10_9_universal2.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp311-cp311-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp311-cp311-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp311-cp311-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp311-cp311-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp312-cp312-macosx_10_13_universal2.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp312-cp312-macosx_11_0_arm64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.manylinux_2_5_x86_64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp312-cp312-manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux_2_28_aarch64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_2_aarch64.whl; httptools-0.8.0-cp312-cp312-musllinux_1_2_x86_64.whl

Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableEnvironment :: Web EnvironmentIntended Audience :: DevelopersOperating System :: MacOS :: MacOS XOperating System :: POSIXProgramming Language :: Python :: 3

About httptools

from the package's own PyPI description — quoted content, verbatim

Tests (image)

httptools is a Python binding for the nodejs HTTP parser.

The package is available on PyPI: pip install httptools.

APIs

httptools contains two classes httptools.HttpRequestParser, httptools.HttpResponseParser (fulfilled through llhttp) and a function for parsing URLs httptools.parse_url (through http-parse for now). See unittests for examples.

```python

class HttpRequestParser:

def __init__(self, protocol):
    """HttpRequestParser

    protocol -- a Python object with the following methods
    (all optional):

      - on_message_begin()
      - on_url(url: bytes)
      - on_header(name: bytes, value: bytes)
      - on_headers_complete()
      - on_body(body: bytes)
      - on_message_complete()
      - on_chunk_header()
      - on_chunk_complete()
      - on_status(status: bytes)
    """

def get_http_version(self) -&gt; str:
    """Return an HTTP protocol version."""

def should_keep_alive(self) -&gt; bool:
    """Return ``True`` if...

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