requests VS httplib2

Compare requests vs httplib2 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)
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requests httplib2
87 1
51,322 485
0.4% 1.2%
8.4 0.8
4 days ago 7 months ago
Python Python
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

grequests - Requests + Gevent = <3

Doublify API Toolkit

AIOHTTP - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python

treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.

Tapioca-Wrapper - Python API client generator

Uplink - A Declarative HTTP Client for Python

Bearer Python

requests-futures - Asynchronous Python HTTP Requests for Humans using Futures

AnyAPI - AnyAPI is a library that helps you to write any API wrapper with ease and in pythonic way.