requests HTTP Python library released in 2011 and is one of the most renowned HTTP libraries for developers in recent times.
Requests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings. (source: https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/).
More information on requests can be found at http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/.
Compared to other HTTP libraries in Python, requests is rated highly in terms of its functioning capability with HTTP. A few of its capabilities are as follows:
- Short, simple, and readable functions and attributes
- Access to various HTTP methods (GET, POST, and PUT, to name a few)
- Gets rid of manual actions, like encoding form values
- Processes query strings
- Custom headers
- Session and ...
