VCR.py
Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing (by kevin1024)
requests
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. (by psf)
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| VCR.py | requests | |
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| 6 | 87 | |
| 2,610 | 51,359 | |
| - | 0.5% | |
| 8.9 | 8.4 | |
| 7 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
VCR.py
Posts with mentions or reviews of VCR.py.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.
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Please recommend a good API Mocking tool
I made a library for this: https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy
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3 Ways to Unit Test REST APIs in Python
Now it’s finally the time to discuss our last option. I have only found about it quite recently, frankly. I’ve been using mocks for a long time and always had some problem with them. VCR.py is a library that simplifies a lot the tests that make HTTP requests.
- My Python testing style guide – Stargirl (Thea) Flowers
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Two Methods for Testing HTTPS API Calls with Python and pytest and also Communicating with the In-laws
Unfortunately, VCR.py only supports a certain number of HTTP client libraries. Thankfully, some very popular implementations are included: the Python built-in urllib and http.client, as well as requests, urllib3, and aiohttp. And, while it may not be listed in the docs at the time of this writing, the changelog notes that HTTPX is also supported. Sadly, pycurl is not supported.
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Magic numbers for Verify?
I don't normally work in Python, so I'm not used to writing mocks. You should be able to mock the client, but if that is too much you might look into something like VCR.py which records underlying HTTP interactions and then plays them back in further tests. (Make sure to redact any API keys from the cassettes though.)
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playback-proxy - record communication between client and server and play it back later during testing
https://betamax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy
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.
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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.
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Ask HN: Is Python async/await some kind of joke?
- Ubiquitous “requests” library used in most docs examples, no async support https://github.com/psf/requests
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10 Github repositories to achieve Python mastery
Explore here.
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urllib3 v2.0.0 is now generally available!
It's Lukasa (his name is Cory, there's Łukasz in PSF though, but that's a different person). Looking at him, he made significant contributions to the requests repo: https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors
- I built a chatbot that lets you talk to any Github repository
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I Could Rewrite Curl
> I'd love to see the look on some of these people's faces when they find out that tool/software/whatever they use is actually using libcurl under the hood.
Python dependencies (does not include curl)
https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/setup-building/i...
The "requests" module in Python (does not use curl)
https://github.com/psf/requests
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Development environment for the Python requests package
This part can be found in the README of the GitHub repository.
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Trying to install autoscan from https://github.com/NiNiyas/autoscan and stuck with no idea what the problem is.
Looking around for similar errors I found this issue where they recommended trying to use a newer version of the urllib3 library.
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Pain when going back to other languages
but I appreciate the fact that there is an issue about it, it's acknowledged and .. unfixable, it would now break too many things https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2002
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How do you decide when to keep a project in a single python file vs break it up into multiple files?
The requests package has been the golden standard for package structure for as long as I can remember.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing VCR.py and requests you can also consider the following projects:
responses - A utility for mocking out the Python Requests library.
urllib3 - urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python
mock - The Python mock library
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.
betamax - A VCR imitation designed only for python-requests.
grequests - Requests + Gevent = <3
httpretty - Intercept HTTP requests at the Python socket level. Fakes the whole socket module
AIOHTTP - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python
Moto - A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.
freezegun - Let your Python tests travel through time
Uplink - A Declarative HTTP Client for Python