treq VS httplib2

Compare treq vs httplib2 and see what are their differences.

treq

Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client. (by twisted)

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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treq httplib2
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583 485
1.7% 1.2%
6.8 0.8
4 days ago 7 months ago
Python Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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treq

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

httplib2

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  • 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 treq and httplib2 you can also consider the following projects:

requests - A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

txrequests - Asynchronous Python HTTP Requests for Humans using twisted

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

grequests - Requests + Gevent = <3

Doublify API Toolkit

Tapioca-Wrapper - Python API client generator

Uplink - A Declarative HTTP Client for Python

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