urllib3

urllib3 is a powerful, sanity-friendly HTTP client for Python. Much of the Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries:

  • Thread safety.
  • Connection pooling.
  • Client-side SSL/TLS verification.
  • File uploads with multipart encoding.
  • Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
  • Support for gzip and deflate encoding.
  • Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
  • 100% test coverage.

urllib3 is powerful and easy to use:

>>> import urllib3
>>> http = urllib3.PoolManager()
>>> r = http.request('GET', 'http://httpbin.org/robots.txt')
>>> r.status
200
>>> r.data
'User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n'

Installing

urllib3 can be installed with pip:

$ pip install urllib3

Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code from GitHub:

$ git clone git://github.com/shazow/urllib3.git
$ python setup.py install

Usage

The User Guide is the place to go to learn how to use the library and accomplish common tasks. The more in-depth Advanced Usage guide is the place to go for lower-level tweaking.

The Reference documentation provides API-level documentation.

Who uses urllib3?

License

urllib3 is made available under the MIT License. For more details, see LICENSE.txt.

Contributing

We happily welcome contributions, please see Contributing for details.