Requests - Python HTTP for Humans, Python Library review Advent 2021

As part of Advent 2021, I’m doing a review of some fun and useful python libraries – 24 libraries in 24 days, and today we’re looking at Requests, which is a super helpful and powerful way of making various web requests. If you’re using python and have not heard of this one, then you’re seriously missing out.

The Requests library enables you to handle a lot of situations, as well as manage cookies, headers, has an inbuilt JSON tool to allow quick calls against Web API’s that use JSON, as well as is super lightweight. It's highly maintained and heavily used by the wider python community so most problems you’ll ever meet are easily googlable online.