httplib2 VS treq

Compare httplib2 vs treq and see what are their differences.

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)

treq

Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client. (by twisted)
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httplib2 treq
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485 583
1.2% 1.7%
0.8 6.8
8 months ago 5 days ago
Python Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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httplib2

Posts with mentions or reviews of httplib2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Faster python app
    1 project | /r/Python | 1 May 2021
    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.

treq

Posts with mentions or reviews of treq. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing httplib2 and treq you can also consider the following projects:

requests - A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

urllib3 - urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python

txrequests - Asynchronous Python HTTP Requests for Humans using twisted

Doublify API Toolkit

grequests - Requests + Gevent = <3

Tapioca-Wrapper - Python API client generator

Uplink - A Declarative HTTP Client for Python

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