---
id: opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests
version: "0.65b0"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests — OpenTelemetry requests instrumentation

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests
uv add opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests
poetry add opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests

## Description

OpenTelemetry Requests Instrumentation
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This library allows tracing HTTP requests made by the
`requests <https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/>`_ library.

Installation
------------

::

     pip install opentelemetry-instrumentation-requests

Configuration
-------------

Exclude lists
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To exclude certain URLs from being tracked, set the environment variable ``OTEL_PYTHON_REQUESTS_EXCLUDED_URLS``
(or ``OTEL_PYTHON_EXCLUDED_URLS`` as fallback) with comma delimited regexes representing which URLs to exclude.

For example,

::

    export OTEL_PYTHON_REQUESTS_EXCLUDED_URLS="client/.*/info,healthcheck"

will exclude requests such as ``https://site/client/123/info`` and ``https://site/xyz/healthcheck``.

References
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* `OpenTelemetry requests Instrumentation <https://opentelemetry-python-contrib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/instrumentation/requests/requests.html>`_
* `OpenTelemetry Project <https://opentelemetry.io/>`_
* `OpenTelemetry Python Examples...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Automatically traces HTTP requests made by the requests library, capturing them as OpenTelemetry spans for observability and distributed tracing.

Verdict: Active, well-maintained instrumentation package for tracing HTTP calls within OpenTelemetry ecosystems. Beta status (0.65b0) and no known vulnerabilities make it suitable for production observability pipelines. Low install friction and permissive licensing support broad adoption.

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