# Requests

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/requests/  
**Website:** https://requests.readthedocs.io  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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+.

## Kin Score — 21.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 20.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 21.3 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.8 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Requests** — 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...

## Security (1)

- **Requests Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Requests Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Clients, HTTP Client, HTTP Library, Open-Source, Python, Python Software Foundation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/requests/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.