Requests

Requests is a simple and elegant HTTP library for Python, designed for human beings. Published under the Apache2 license by the Python Software Foundation (PSF), it is one of the most downloaded Python packages with approximately 300 million weekly downloads and over 4 million dependent repositories. Requests abstracts urllib3 to provide idiomatic HTTP method functions (get, post, put, patch, delete, head, options), persistent Sessions with connection pooling, automatic content decompression, TLS/SSL verification, Basic and Digest authentication, cookie persistence, streaming downloads, multipart file uploads, SOCKS proxy support, and configurable timeouts. Current stable version: 2.33.1 (March 2026). Supports Python 3.10+.

Requests publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Clients, HTTP Client, HTTP Library, Open-Source, and Python.

The Requests catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Requests’ developer surface includes documentation, code examples, changelog, and 10 more developer resources.

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21.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessFreemium

1 APIs

Clients HTTP ClientHTTP LibraryOpen-Source PythonPython Software Foundation

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 21.7/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 4.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 2.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 2.6 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 1

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Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Requests Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

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JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONStructure

JSONStructure

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 3

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Examples

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Examples

Examples

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

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ChangeLog

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Company 1

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Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

PyPI

PyPI

Source (apis.yml)

aid: requests
name: Requests
description: 'Requests is a simple and elegant HTTP library for Python, designed for human beings. Published under the Apache2
  license by the Python Software Foundation (PSF), it is one of the most downloaded Python packages with approximately 300
  million weekly downloads and over 4 million dependent repositories. Requests abstracts urllib3 to provide idiomatic HTTP
  method functions (get, post, put, patch, delete, head, options), persistent Sessions with connection pooling, automatic
  content decompression, TLS/SSL verification, Basic and Digest authentication, cookie persistence, streaming downloads, multipart
  file uploads, SOCKS proxy support, and configurable timeouts. Current stable version: 2.33.1 (March 2026). Supports Python
  3.10+.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/requests.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Clients
- HTTP Client
- HTTP Library
- Open-Source
- Python
- Python Software Foundation
tags_raw:
- Clients
- HTTP Client
- HTTP Library
- Open Source
- Python
- Python Software Foundation
created: '2026-03-27'
modified: '2026-05-02'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: requests:requests
  name: Requests
  description: Requests is a simple and elegant HTTP library for Python, designed for human beings. It provides a clean, human-friendly
    API for all standard HTTP methods with automatic content handling, authentication, session management, and TLS verification.
  humanURL: https://requests.readthedocs.io
  tags:
  - Clients
  - HTTP Client
  - HTTP Library
  - Open-Source
  - Python
  tags_raw:
  - Clients
  - HTTP Client
  - HTTP Library
  - Open Source
  - Python
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/quickstart/
  - type: AdvancedUsage
    url: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/psf/requests
  - type: PyPI
    url: https://pypi.org/project/requests/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/requests-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://requests.readthedocs.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/psf/requests
- type: PyPI
  name: Requests on PyPI
  description: Python Package Index listing for the requests package.
  url: https://pypi.org/project/requests/
- type: JSONSchema
  name: Requests Request Schema
  description: JSON Schema describing the parameters of a Requests HTTP request call.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/json-schema/requests-request-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  name: Requests Response Schema
  description: JSON Schema describing the attributes of a requests.Response object.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/json-schema/requests-response-schema.json
- type: JSONStructure
  name: Requests Response Structure
  description: Field-level structure documentation for the requests.Response object.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/json-structure/requests-response-structure.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  name: Requests JSON-LD Context
  description: JSON-LD context mapping Requests HTTP concepts to Hydra and schema.org.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/json-ld/requests-context.jsonld
- type: Examples
  name: GET Request Example
  description: Example of a GET request to the GitHub API using requests.get().
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/examples/requests-get-example.json
- type: Examples
  name: POST Request Example
  description: Example of a POST request with JSON body using requests.post().
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/examples/requests-post-example.json
- type: Vocabulary
  name: Requests Vocabulary
  description: Domain vocabulary for the Requests library programming model, features, and ecosystem.
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/requests/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/requests-vocabulary.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  name: Requests Changelog
  description: Release history and changelog for the Requests library.
  url: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/community/updates/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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