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Work · February 7, 2012

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Requests for PHP - HTTP library, my project for the last few weeks

A HTTP request library written for human beings

Requests for PHP - HTTP library, my project for the last few weeks launched on February 7, 2012 with 5 votes, #142 of 360 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

What it does

A humble HTTP request library . Simplify how you interact with other sites and leave your worries behind. Requests is a HTTP library written in PHP, for human beings. It is roughly based on the API from the excellent Requests Python library . Requests is ISC Licensed (similar to the new BSD license) and has no dependencies, except for PHP 5.6+. Despite PHP’s use as a language for the web, its tools for sending HTTP requests are severely lacking. cURL has an interesting API , to say the least, and you can’t always rely on it being available. Sockets provide only low level access, and require you to build most of the HTTP response parsing yourself. We all have better things to do. That’s why…from requests.ryanmccue.info

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