urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. Much of the Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries:
urllib3 is powerful and easy to use:
>>> import urllib3
>>> resp = urllib3.request("GET", "http://httpbin.org/robots.txt")
>>> resp.status
200
>>> resp.data
b"User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n"
urllib3 can be installed with pip:
$ python -m pip install urllib3
Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code from GitHub:
$ git clone https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3.git
$ cd urllib3
$ pip install .
urllib3 has usage and reference documentation at urllib3.readthedocs.io.
urllib3 has a community Discord channel for asking questions and collaborating with other contributors. Drop by and say hello 👋
urllib3 happily accepts contributions. Please see our contributing documentation for some tips on getting started.
To report a security vulnerability, please use the Tidelift security contact. Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure with maintainers.
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FAQs
HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.
We found that urllib3 demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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