Python HTTP Client Projects

httpx

53 12,200 9.0 Python

A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋

Project mention: A Retrospective on Requests | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-27

For reference, it's a butterfly, not a moth.
Source: https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/834
Niquests

6 711 8.7 Python

Requests but with HTTP/3, HTTP/2, Multiplexed Connections, System CAs, Certificate Revocation, DNS over HTTPS / TLS / QUIC or UDP, Async, DNSSEC, and (much) pain removed!

Project mention: Revived the promise made six years ago for Requests 3 | dev.to | 2024-04-02

Just around my intent to give up on urllib3 evolution, we proposed a fork of both urllib3 and Requests, namely urllib3-future and Niquests.
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-02.