Requests by psf
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
About Requests
From the project's README at github.com/psf/requests. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
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Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your & data, but nowadays, just use the method!
Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages today, pulling in around , according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by repositories. Installing Requests and Supported Versions
Health score breakdown
6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.
Adoption signals
Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.
| Signal | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 54k | github.com/psf/requests |
| GitHub forks | 9.9k | github.com/psf/requests |
| PYPI downloads (last month) | 1493186k | requests |
Release & maintenance
Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.
| Project age | 15.2 years | since Feb 2011 |
| Last commit | 2 days ago | May 4, 2026 |
| Releases shipped | 16 | last: 1 months ago |
| Security policy | SECURITY.md | declared by maintainers |
| Funding links | 1 | declared by maintainers |
Self-hosting cost across providers
Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.
| Provider | Plan | Specs | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hetzner | CAX11 | 2c · 4GB · 40GB | $4.13 USD | Deploy → |
| vultr | VC2 | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5 USD | Deploy → |
| linode | Nanode 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5.12 USD | Deploy → |
| digitalocean | Basic Regular 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $6 USD | Deploy → |
Security advisories
CVE-2026-25645. What people say on Hacker News
- Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far
- Show HN: Interactive knowledge graph for the AAuth (Agent Auth) protocol
- Show HN: API Ingest – Agentic Search (Inter) API Docs
- Ask HN: Pros and cons of switching to self-hosted inference?
- Show HN: Text2troff – automatically converts plain text to TROFF format
Ready to self-host Requests?
Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.
Data last refreshed May 7, 2026.
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