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Recommended Packages and Extensions

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Recommended Packages and Extensions

Requests has a great variety of powerful and useful third-party extensions. This page provides an overview of some of the best of them.

Certifi CA Bundle

Certifi_ is a carefully curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts. It has been extracted from the Requests project.

.. _Certifi: https://github.com/certifi/python-certifi

CacheControl

CacheControl_ is an extension that adds a full HTTP cache to Requests. This makes your web requests substantially more efficient, and should be used whenever you're making a lot of web requests.

.. _CacheControl: https://cachecontrol.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Requests-Toolbelt

Requests-Toolbelt_ is a collection of utilities that some users of Requests may desire, but do not belong in Requests proper. This library is actively maintained by members of the Requests core team, and reflects the functionality most requested by users within the community.

.. _Requests-Toolbelt: https://toolbelt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Requests-Threads

Requests-Threads_ is a Requests session that returns the amazing Twisted's awaitable Deferreds instead of Response objects. This allows the use of async/await keyword usage on Python 3, or Twisted's style of programming, if desired.

.. _Requests-Threads: https://github.com/requests/requests-threads

Requests-OAuthlib

requests-oauthlib_ makes it possible to do the OAuth dance from Requests automatically. This is useful for the large number of websites that use OAuth to provide authentication. It also provides a lot of tweaks that handle ways that specific OAuth providers differ from the standard specifications.

.. _requests-oauthlib: https://requests-oauthlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Betamax

Betamax_ records your HTTP interactions so the NSA does not have to. A VCR imitation designed only for Python-Requests.

.. _betamax: https://github.com/betamaxpy/betamax