urllib3
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urllib3 is a powerful, *sanity-friendly* HTTP client for Python. Much of the
Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too.
urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python
standard libraries:

- Thread safety.
- Connection pooling.
- Client-side SSL/TLS verification.
- File uploads with multipart encoding.
- Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
- Support for gzip and deflate encoding.
- Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
- 100% test coverage.

urllib3 is powerful and easy to use::

    >>> import urllib3
    >>> http = urllib3.PoolManager()
    >>> r = http.request('GET', 'http://httpbin.org/robots.txt')
    >>> r.status
    200
    >>> r.data
    'User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n'


Installing
----------

urllib3 can be installed with `pip <https://pip.pypa.io>`_::

    $ pip install urllib3

Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code from `GitHub <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3>`_::

    $ git clone git://github.com/urllib3/urllib3.git
    $ python setup.py install


Documentation
-------------

urllib3 has usage and reference documentation at `urllib3.readthedocs.io <https://urllib3.readthedocs.io>`_.


Contributing
------------

urllib3 happily accepts contributions. Please see our
`contributing documentation <https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html>`_
for some tips on getting started.


Maintainers
-----------

- `@theacodes <https://github.com/theacodes>`_ (Thea Flowers)
- `@SethMichaelLarson <https://github.com/SethMichaelLarson>`_ (Seth M. Larson)
- `@haikuginger <https://github.com/haikuginger>`_ (Jesse Shapiro)
- `@lukasa <https://github.com/lukasa>`_ (Cory Benfield)
- `@sigmavirus24 <https://github.com/sigmavirus24>`_ (Ian Cordasco)
- `@shazow <https://github.com/shazow>`_ (Andrey Petrov)

👋


Sponsorship
-----------

If your company benefits from this library, please consider `sponsoring its
development <https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html#sponsorship>`_.

Sponsors include:

- Google Cloud Platform (2018-present), sponsors `@theacodes <https://github.com/theacodes>`_'s work on an ongoing basis
- Abbott (2018-present), sponsors `@SethMichaelLarson <https://github.com/SethMichaelLarson>`_'s work on an ongoing basis
- Akamai (2017-present), sponsors `@haikuginger <https://github.com/haikuginger>`_'s work on an ongoing basis
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2016-2017), sponsored `@Lukasa’s <https://github.com/Lukasa>`_ work on urllib3