Uplink
A Declarative HTTP Client for Python (by prkumar)
requests
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. (by psf)
| Uplink | requests | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 98 | |
| 1,097 | 53,049 | |
| 0.5% | 0.3% | |
| 8.5 | 7.9 | |
| about 1 month ago | 2 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.
Uplink
Posts with mentions or reviews of Uplink.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-16.
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Uplink VS lapidary - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 16 Mar 2025
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 2025-06-03.
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Essential uv Usage for Daily Development
# Add latest version of requests package uv add requests # Specify version uv add 'requests==2.31.0' # Add git dependency uv add git+https://github.com/psf/requests # Migrate from requirements.txt uv add -r requirements.txt -c constraints.txt # If not using constraints.txt, use this uv add -r requirements.txt # Adding --dev makes it a development dependency # (added to dev in [dependency-groups] of pyproject.toml). # Example of adding moto needed only for testing as development dependency uv add moto --dev # Updates are also possible with uv add --upgrade uv add requests --upgrade
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CVE-2024-47081: Netrc credential leak in PSF requests library
https://github.com/psf/requests/commit/79bb9ee1417afe2231972...
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Show HN: Hypermode Model Router Preview – OpenRouter Alternative
You are right! https://github.com/psf/requests/blob/c65c780849563c891f35ffc...
The post function calls request the request function which uses its own context manager that will call the close function of the connection object.
- Latest Setuptools broke a bunch of packages
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Ruff: Python linter and code formatter written in Rust
[2] https://github.com/psf/requests/pull/6667
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Working with APIs in Python: A Practical Guide
requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages with around 30M downloads every week according to pypi. It enables you to send HTTP requests easily in Python. requests is a tested and trusted Python package, used by many established brands like IBM. Find the source code here. Some of the “beloved” features of requests are:
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The Pythonic Emptiness
Keep in mind that truthiness comes from __bool__ and is overridable, so separate from Python itself, a lot of library authors have made questionable decisions here. A perennial contender is https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2002.
- Python Requests is getting an interesting alternative
- Vanilla Python Packaging
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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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Uplink and requests you can also consider the following projects:
urllib3 - urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python
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.
grequests - Requests + Gevent = <3