.. _install:

Installation of Requests

This part of the documentation covers the installation of Requests. The first step to using any software package is getting it properly installed.

$ python -m pip install requests

To install Requests, simply run this simple command in your terminal of choice::

$ python -m pip install requests

Requests is actively developed on GitHub, where the code is always available <https://github.com/psf/requests>_.

You can either clone the public repository::

$ git clone https://github.com/psf/requests.git

Or, download the tarball <https://github.com/psf/requests/tarball/main>_::

$ curl -OL https://github.com/psf/requests/tarball/main
# optionally, zipball is also available (for Windows users).

Once you have a copy of the source, you can embed it in your own Python package, or install it into your site-packages easily::

$ cd requests
$ python -m pip install .