A Comprehensive, Compatible Open Source Alternative to Python Requests
Niquests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Requests that is no longer under feature freeze. Supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 out-of-the-box without breaking a sweat!
A Comprehensive, Compatible Open Source Alternative to Python Requests launched on March 10, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
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Niquests is an elegant and simple HTTP library for Python, built for human beings. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Requests that is no longer under feature freeze. Supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 out-of-the-box without breaking a sweat! >>> import niquests >>> s = niquests . Session ( resolver = "doh+google://" ) >>> r = s . get ( 'https://httpbingo.org/basic-auth/user/pass' , auth = ( 'user' , 'pass' )) >>> r . status_code 200 >>> r . headers [ 'content-type' ] 'application/json; charset=utf-8' >>> r . oheaders . content_type . charset 'utf-8' >>> r . encoding 'utf-8' >>> r . text '{"authenticated": true, ...' >>> r . json () {'authenticated': True, ...} >>> r <Response…from niquests.readthedocs.io
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