Description
There are two critical features missing from the Python standard library:
Connection re-using/pooling and file posting. It's not terribly hard to
implement these yourself, but it's much easier to use a module that already
did the work for you.
The Python standard libraries urllib and urllib2 have little to do
with each other. They were designed to be independent and standalone, each
solving a different scope of problems, and urllib3 follows in a similar
vein.
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httplib2
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urllib3.future
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README
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:
- Thread safety.
- Connection pooling.
- Client-side SSL/TLS verification.
- File uploads with multipart encoding.
- Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
- Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding.
- Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
- 100% test coverage.
urllib3 is powerful and easy to use:
>>> import urllib3
>>> http = urllib3.PoolManager()
>>> resp = http.request("GET", "http://httpbin.org/robots.txt")
>>> resp.status
200
>>> resp.data
b"User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n"
Installing
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 .
Documentation
urllib3 has usage and reference documentation at urllib3.readthedocs.io.
Community
urllib3 has a community Discord channel for asking questions and collaborating with other contributors. Drop by and say hello 👋
Contributing
urllib3 happily accepts contributions. Please see our contributing documentation for some tips on getting started.
Security Disclosures
To report a security vulnerability, please use the Tidelift security contact. Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure with maintainers.
Maintainers
- @sethmlarson (Seth M. Larson)
- @pquentin (Quentin Pradet)
- @theacodes (Thea Flowers)
- @haikuginger (Jess Shapiro)
- @lukasa (Cory Benfield)
- @sigmavirus24 (Ian Stapleton Cordasco)
- @shazow (Andrey Petrov)
👋
Sponsorship
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For Enterprise
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