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Life & fun · September 13, 2018

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Uplink – Build Reusable Objects for Consuming Web APIs

Uplink – Build Reusable Objects for Consuming Web APIs launched on September 13, 2018 with 51 votes, #738 of 2,635 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

In plain words

Uplink is a Python library for building HTTP clients to consume web APIs using declarative code patterns inspired by Retrofit. Developers define API interactions as class methods with annotations rather than writing manual HTTP requests. The tool is currently in beta development with a stabilizing public API, making it suitable for Python projects that need structured, reusable API client code.

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From the sources

A Declarative HTTP Client for Python. Inspired by Retrofit . Uplink is in beta development. The public API is still evolving, but we expect most changes to be backwards compatible at this point. Then, executing an HTTP request is as simply as invoking a method. For sending non-blocking requests, Uplink comes with support for aiohttp and twisted ( example ). This guide details the classes and methods in Uplink’s publicfrom uplink.readthedocs.io

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