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urllib3
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urllib3 is a powerful, *user-friendly* HTTP client for Python.
:ref:`Much of the Python ecosystem already uses <who-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 TLS/SSL verification.
- File uploads with multipart encoding.
- Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
- Support for gzip, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding.
- Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
- 100% test coverage.
urllib3 is powerful and easy to use:
.. code-block:: pycon
>>> import urllib3
>>> resp = urllib3.request("GET", "https://httpbin.org/robots.txt")
>>> resp.status
200
>>> resp.data
b"User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n"
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Installing
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urllib3 can be installed with `pip <https://pip.pypa.io>`_
.. code-block:: bash
$ python -m pip install urllib3
Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code from `GitHub <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3>`_:
.. code-block:: bash
$ git clone https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3.git
$ cd urllib3
$ pip install .
Usage
-----
The :doc:`user-guide` is the place to go to learn how to use the library and
accomplish common tasks. The more in-depth :doc:`advanced-usage` guide is the place to go for lower-level tweaking.
The :doc:`reference/index` documentation provides API-level documentation.
.. _who-uses:
Who uses urllib3?
-----------------
`urllib3 is one of the most downloaded packages on PyPI <https://pypistats.org/top>`_
and is a dependency of many popular Python packages like `Requests <https://requests.readthedocs.io>`_,
`Pip <https://pip.pypa.io>`_, and more!
License
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urllib3 is made available under the MIT License. For more details, see `LICENSE.txt <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/master/LICENSE.txt>`_.
Contributing
------------
We happily welcome contributions, please see :doc:`contributing` for details.