httplib2
Small, fast HTTP client library for Python. Features persistent connections, cache, and Google App Engine support. Originally written by Joe Gregorio, now supported by community. (by httplib2)
requests
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. (by psf)
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| httplib2 | requests | |
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| 1 | 87 | |
| 485 | 51,322 | |
| 1.2% | 0.4% | |
| 0.8 | 8.4 | |
| 7 months ago | 10 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
httplib2
Posts with mentions or reviews of httplib2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Faster python app
That’s a terrible way to cache a http request. It completely ignores any cache information that the server sends and just blindly stores the result. If you want http caching httplib2 will do it properly.
requests
Posts with mentions or reviews of requests.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-02.
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Revived the promise made six years ago for Requests 3
For many years now, Requests has been frozen. Being left in a vegetative state and not evolving, this blocked millions of developers from using more advanced features.
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Ask HN: Is Python async/await some kind of joke?
- Ubiquitous “requests” library used in most docs examples, no async support https://github.com/psf/requests
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10 Github repositories to achieve Python mastery
Explore here.
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urllib3 v2.0.0 is now generally available!
It's Lukasa (his name is Cory, there's Łukasz in PSF though, but that's a different person). Looking at him, he made significant contributions to the requests repo: https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors
- I built a chatbot that lets you talk to any Github repository
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I Could Rewrite Curl
> I'd love to see the look on some of these people's faces when they find out that tool/software/whatever they use is actually using libcurl under the hood.
Python dependencies (does not include curl)
https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/setup-building/i...
The "requests" module in Python (does not use curl)
https://github.com/psf/requests
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Development environment for the Python requests package
This part can be found in the README of the GitHub repository.
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Trying to install autoscan from https://github.com/NiNiyas/autoscan and stuck with no idea what the problem is.
Looking around for similar errors I found this issue where they recommended trying to use a newer version of the urllib3 library.
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Pain when going back to other languages
but I appreciate the fact that there is an issue about it, it's acknowledged and .. unfixable, it would now break too many things https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2002
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How do you decide when to keep a project in a single python file vs break it up into multiple files?
The requests package has been the golden standard for package structure for as long as I can remember.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing httplib2 and requests you can also consider the following projects:
urllib3 - urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python
Doublify API Toolkit
grequests - Requests + Gevent = <3
AIOHTTP - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python
Tapioca-Wrapper - Python API client generator
treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.
Bearer Python
Uplink - A Declarative HTTP Client for Python
AnyAPI - AnyAPI is a library that helps you to write any API wrapper with ease and in pythonic way.
requests-futures - Asynchronous Python HTTP Requests for Humans using Futures