A next generation HTTP client for Python

HTTPX

HTTPX - A next-generation HTTP client for Python.

Let's get started...

>>> import httpx
>>> r = httpx.get('https://www.example.org/')
>>> r
<Response [200 OK]>
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.protocol
'HTTP/2'
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
>>> r.text
'<!doctype html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title>Example Domain</title>...'

Features

HTTPX builds on the well-established usability of requests, and gives you:

A requests-compatible API.
HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.1 support.
Support for issuing HTTP requests in parallel. (Coming soon)
Standard synchronous interface, but with async/await support if you need it.
Ability to make requests directly to WSGI or ASGI applications.
Strict timeouts everywhere.
Fully type annotated.
100% test coverage.

Plus all the standard features of requests...

International Domains and URLs
Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
Sessions with Cookie Persistence
Browser-style SSL Verification
Basic/Digest Authentication (Digest is still TODO)
Elegant Key/Value Cookies
Automatic Decompression
Automatic Content Decoding
Unicode Response Bodies
Multipart File Uploads
HTTP(S) Proxy Support (TODO)
Connection Timeouts
Streaming Downloads
.netrc Support (TODO)
Chunked Requests

Installation

Install with pip:

$ pip install httpx

httpx requires Python 3.6+

Documentation

Project documentation is available at www.encode.io/httpx/.

For a run-through of all the basics, head over to the QuickStart.

For more advanced topics, see the Advanced Usage section, or
the specific topics on making Parallel Requests or using the
Async Client.

The Developer Interface provides a comprehensive API reference.

Dependencies

The httpx project relies on these excellent libraries:

h2 - HTTP/2 support.
h11 - HTTP/1.1 support.
certifi - SSL certificates.
chardet - Fallback auto-detection for response encoding.
idna - Internationalized domain name support.
rfc3986 - URL parsing & normalization.
brotlipy - Decoding for "brotli" compressed responses. (Optional)

A huge amount of credit is due to requests for the API layout that
much of this work follows, as well as to urllib3 for plenty of design
inspiration around the lower level networking details.