---
id: requests
version: "2.34.2"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# requests — Python HTTP for Humans.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 100 on PyPI

## Install

pip install requests
uv add requests
poetry add requests

## Description

# Requests

[![Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/requests.svg?maxAge=86400)](https://pypi.org/project/requests/)
[![Supported Versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/requests.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/requests)
[![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/requests/month)](https://pepy.tech/project/requests)
[![Contributors](https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/psf/requests.svg)](https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors)
[![Documentation](https://readthedocs.org/projects/requests/badge/?version=latest)](https://requests.readthedocs.io)

**Requests** is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

```python
>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass', auth=('user', 'pass'))
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'application/json; charset=utf8'
>>> r.encoding
'utf-8'
>>> r.text
'{"authenticated": true, ...'
>>> r.json()
{'authenticated': True, ...}
```

Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your `PUT` & `POST` data — but nowadays, just use the `json` method!

Requests is one of the most downloaded...

## AI interpretation — verify before relying

Requests is a human-friendly HTTP library for sending HTTP/1.1 requests with automatic handling of headers, authentication, cookies, redirects, and content encoding.

Verdict: Requests is a production-stable, top-100 PyPI package with active maintenance, zero known vulnerabilities, and permissive licensing. Its low install friction and broad ecosystem adoption make it a reliable choice for HTTP operations in Python 3.10+.

[View on SkillFed](https://skillfed.io/packages/requests) · [View on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/requests/)