urllib3 is a powerful, *user-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, deflate, brotli, and zstd encoding.
- Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
- 100% test coverage.
urllib3 is powerful and easy to use:
```python3
>>> import urllib3
>>> resp = urllib3.request("GET", "http://httpbin.org/robots.txt")
>>> resp.status
200
>>> resp.data
b"User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n"
```
## Installing
urllib3 can be installed with [pip](https://pip.pypa.io):
```bash
$ python -m pip install urllib3
```
Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code from [GitHub](https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3):
```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3.git
$ cd urllib3
$ pip install .
```
## Documentation
urllib3 has usage and reference documentation at [urllib3.readthedocs.io](https://urllib3.readthedocs.io).
## Community
urllib3 has a [community Discord channel](https://discord.gg/urllib3) for asking questions and
collaborating with other contributors. Drop by and say hello 👋
## Contributing
urllib3 happily accepts contributions. Please see our
[contributing documentation](https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html)
for some tips on getting started.
## Security Disclosures
To report a security vulnerability, please use the
[Tidelift security contact](https://tidelift.com/security).
Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure with maintainers.
## Maintainers
- [@sethmlarson](https://github.com/sethmlarson) (Seth M. Larson)
- [@pquentin](https://github.com/pquentin) (Quentin Pradet)
- [@theacodes](https://github.com/theacodes) (Thea Flowers)
- [@haikuginger](https://github.com/haikuginger) (Jess Shapiro)
- [@lukasa](https://github.com/lukasa) (Cory Benfield)
- [@sigmavirus24](https://github.com/sigmavirus24) (Ian Stapleton 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/sponsors.html).
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purchasing and maintaining their software, with professional grade assurances
from the experts who know it best, while seamlessly integrating with existing
tools.
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