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
51,293 485
0.4% 1.2%
8.5 0.8
5 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

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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

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

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

Uplink - A Declarative HTTP Client for Python

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

Tapioca-Wrapper - Python API client generator

pyppeteer - Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)

jasmin - Jasmin - Open source SMS gateway

txrequests - Asynchronous Python HTTP Requests for Humans using twisted

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