urllib3 is a powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries:

• Thread safety.
• Connection pooling.
• Client-side SSL/TLS 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.

... and many more features, but most importantly: Our maintainers have a 15+ year track record of maintaining urllib3 with the highest code standards and attention to security and safety.

Much of the Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too.

urllib3 can be installed with pip:

$ python -m pip install urllib3

Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code from GitHub:

$ git clone https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3.git
$ cd urllib3
$ pip install .

urllib3 is easy to use:

>>> import urllib3
>>> resp = urllib3.request("GET", "http://httpbin.org/robots.txt")
>>> resp.status
200
>>> resp.data
b"User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n"

urllib3 has usage and reference documentation at urllib3.readthedocs.io.

urllib3 has a community Discord channel for asking questions and collaborating with other contributors. Drop by and say hello 👋

urllib3 happily accepts contributions. Please see our contributing documentation for some tips on getting started.

To report a security vulnerability, please use the Tidelift security contact. Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure with maintainers.

Meet our maintainers since 2008:

• Current Lead: @illia-v (Illia Volochii)
• @sethmlarson (Seth M. Larson)
• @pquentin (Quentin Pradet)
• @theacodes (Thea Flowers)
• @haikuginger (Jess Shapiro)
• @lukasa (Cory Benfield)
• @sigmavirus24 (Ian Stapleton Cordasco)
• @shazow (Andrey Petrov)

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