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, deflate, and brotli 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 GitHub:

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

Documentation

urllib3 has usage and reference documentation at Contributing

urllib3 happily accepts contributions. Please see our Security Disclosures

To report a security vulnerability, please use the Maintainers

• @pquentin (Quentin Pradet)
• @haikuginger (Jess Shapiro)
• @sigmavirus24 (Ian Stapleton Cordasco)
• Sponsorship
  Tidelift Professional support for urllib3 is available as part of the sponsoring its development.

  Sponsors include:

  • Abbott (2018-2019), sponsored @theacodes's work on urllib3.
  • Akamai (2017-2018), sponsored @Lukasa’s work on urllib3.