HTTPX

A next-generation HTTP client for Python. A next-generation HTTP client for Python.

HTTPX is a fully featured HTTP client for Python 3, which provides sync and async APIs, and support for both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.

Note HTTPX should currently be considered in beta. We believe we've got the public API to a stable point now, but would strongly recommend pinning your dependencies to the 0.14.* release, so that you're able to properly review API changes between package updates. A 1.0 release is expected to be issued sometime in late 2020.

Let's get started...

>>> import httpx >>> r = httpx . get ( 'https://www.example.org/' ) >>> r <Response [200 OK]> >>> r . status_code 200 >>> r . headers [ 'content-type' ] 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' >>> r . text '<!doctype html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Example Domain</title>...'

Or, using the async API...

Use IPython or Python 3.8+ with python -m asyncio to try this code interactively.

>>> import httpx >>> async with httpx . AsyncClient () as client : >>> r = await client . get ( 'https://www.example.org/' ) >>> r <Response [200 OK]>

Features

HTTPX is a high performance asynchronous HTTP client, that builds on the well-established usability of requests , and gives you:

Plus all the standard features of requests ...

International Domains and URLs

Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling

Sessions with Cookie Persistence

Browser-style SSL Verification

Basic/Digest Authentication

Elegant Key/Value Cookies

Automatic Decompression

Automatic Content Decoding

Unicode Response Bodies

Multipart File Uploads

HTTP(S) Proxy Support

Connection Timeouts

Streaming Downloads

.netrc Support

Chunked Requests

Documentation

For a run-through of all the basics, head over to the QuickStart.

For more advanced topics, see the Advanced Usage section, the async support section, or the HTTP/2 section.

The Developer Interface provides a comprehensive API reference.

To find out about tools that integrate with HTTPX, see Third Party Packages.

Dependencies

The HTTPX project relies on these excellent libraries:

httpcore - The underlying transport implementation for httpx .

- The underlying transport implementation for . h11 - HTTP/1.1 support.

- HTTP/1.1 support. h2 - HTTP/2 support. (Optional)

- HTTP/2 support. (Optional) certifi - SSL certificates.

- SSL certificates. chardet - Fallback auto-detection for response encoding.

- Fallback auto-detection for response encoding. rfc3986 - URL parsing & normalization.

- URL parsing & normalization. idna - Internationalized domain name support.

- Internationalized domain name support. sniffio - Async library autodetection.

- Async library autodetection. urllib3 - Support for the httpx.URLLib3Transport class. (Optional)

- Support for the class. (Optional) brotlipy - Decoding for "brotli" compressed responses. (Optional)

A huge amount of credit is due to requests for the API layout that much of this work follows, as well as to urllib3 for plenty of design inspiration around the lower-level networking details.

Installation

Install with pip:

$ pip install httpx

Or, to include the optional HTTP/2 support, use:

$ pip install httpx [ http2 ]

To include the optional brotli decoder support, use:

$ pip install httpx [ brotli ]

HTTPX requires Python 3.6+