Tutorial: Requests

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Requests^{View Repo} is a Python library that makes sending HTTP requests incredibly simple. Instead of dealing with complex details, you can use straightforward functions (like requests.get()) or Session objects to interact with web services. It automatically handles things like cookies, redirects, authentication, and connection pooling, returning easy-to-use Response objects with all the server’s data.

flowchart TD
    A0["Request & Response Models"]
    A1["Session"]
    A2["Transport Adapters"]
    A3["Functional API"]
    A4["Authentication Handlers"]
    A5["Cookie Jar"]
    A6["Exception Hierarchy"]
    A7["Hook System"]
    A3 -- "Uses temporary" --> A1
    A1 -- "Prepares/Receives" --> A0
    A1 -- "Manages & Uses" --> A2
    A1 -- "Manages" --> A5
    A1 -- "Manages" --> A4
    A1 -- "Manages" --> A7
    A2 -- "Sends/Builds" --> A0
    A4 -- "Modifies (adds headers)" --> A0
    A5 -- "Populates/Reads" --> A0
    A7 -- "Operates on" --> A0
    A0 -- "Can Raise (raise_for_status)" --> A6
    A2 -- "Raises Connection Errors" --> A6

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Table of contents

• Functional API
• Request & Response Models
• Session
• Cookie Jar
• Authentication Handlers
• Exception Hierarchy
• Transport Adapters
• Hook System