Niquests is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. It is a drop-in replacement for Requests, which is under feature freeze. ✨ Were you used to betamax, requests-mock, responses, ...? See how they still work! We got you covered.

Live Benchmark Target: https://httpbingo.org/get Conditions: All default parameters, one shared session, everything simultaneously. HTTP/2 when supported.

>>> import niquests
>>> r = niquests.get('https://httpbingo.org/get', params={'hello': 'world'}, timeout=10)
>>> r.raise_for_status()
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.headers['content-type']
'application/json; charset=utf-8'
>>> r.json()['args']
{'hello': ['world']}

The same request using async/await:

import asyncio

import niquests


async def main() -> None:
    async with niquests.AsyncSession() as session:
        r = await session.get(
            'https://httpbingo.org/get', params={'hello': 'world'}, timeout=10
        )
        r.raise_for_status()
        print(r.json()['args'])  # {'hello': ['world']}


asyncio.run(main())

Use params= for query parameters, data= for form fields, and json= for JSON request bodies. Call response.json() to decode a JSON response.

This project does not require any compilation toolchain. The HTTP/3 support is not enforced and installed if your platform can support it natively (e.g. pre-built wheel available).

Niquests is available on PyPI:

$ python -m pip install niquests

Niquests officially supports Python or PyPy 3.7+. Even WASI or Pyodide!

Niquests is ready for the demands of building scalable, robust and reliable HTTP–speaking applications.

• DNS over HTTPS, DNS over QUIC, DNS over TLS, and DNS over UDP
• Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding
• OS truststore by default, no more certifi!
• OCSP Certificate Revocation Verification
• Advanced connection timings inspection
• In-memory certificates (CAs, and mTLS)
• Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification
• Certificate Revocation List (CRL)
• Sessions with Cookie Persistence
• Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
• International Domains and URLs
• Automatic honoring of .netrc
• Basic & Digest Authentication
• Familiar dict–like Cookies
• Network settings fine-tuning
• HTTP/2 with prior knowledge
• Browser TLS Impersonator
• Object-oriented headers
• Multi-part File Uploads
• Swappable TLS Backend
• Post-Quantum Security
• Chunked HTTP Requests
• Fully type-annotated!
• Run in the Browser!
• SOCKS Proxy Support
• Connection Timeouts
• Streaming Downloads
• HTTP/2 by default
• HTTP/3 over QUIC
• Early Responses
• Happy Eyeballs
• Multiplexed!
• Thread-safe!
• WebSocket!
• Trailers!
• DNSSEC!
• Async!
• WASI!
• SSE!
• ECH!

Need something more? Create an issue, we actively listen.

For many years now, Requests has been frozen. Being left in a vegetative state and not evolving, this blocked millions of developers from using more advanced features.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel all over again, HTTP client Requests is well established and really pleasant in its usage. We believe that Requests has the most inclusive and developer friendly interfaces. We intend to keep it that way. As long as we can, long live Niquests!

How about a nice refresher with a mere CTRL+H import requests to import niquests as requests ?

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Niquests is a highly improved HTTP client that is based (forked) on Requests. The previous project original author is Kenneth Reitz and actually left the maintenance of Requests years ago.