The requests library is probably the most commonly used library in Python, having been used in countless applications to retrieve data from an API, scrape a website, or send data to a server. It's one of the most downloaded Python packages of all time and for good reason. In this article, you will learn all the important things to know to use it with confidence.

What is requests ?

requests is a third-party Python library that makes the sending of HTTP requests super easy. There is a standard library module called urllib in Python, but it's a bit cumbersome to use and has a lot of words. requests will do everything that urllib can do but put all of that into a user-friendly but clean API.

According to its own tagline, the library is HTTP for Humans .

Installation

pip install requests

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