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What is Requests Library?

An elegant HTTP library for Python that simplifies making web requests with a human-friendly API.

Requests makes HTTP calls simple: response = requests.get("https://api.example.com/data"). It handles JSON encoding/decoding, session management, cookies, authentication, SSL verification, and file uploads automatically.

Features include connection pooling via Sessions, timeout handling, retry logic (via urllib3), proxy support, and streaming downloads for large files. Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages.

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