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requests vs urllib3: What are the differences?
requests: Python HTTP for Humans. Python HTTP for Humans; urllib3: HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling. HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.
requests and urllib3 can be categorized as "PyPI Packages" tools.
requests and urllib3 are both open source tools. requests with 45.3K GitHub stars and 8.29K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than urllib3 with 2.68K GitHub stars and 842 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, requests has a broader approval, being mentioned in 217 company stacks & 90 developers stacks; compared to urllib3, which is listed in 95 company stacks and 28 developer stacks.
requests Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 10.7K
urllib3 Stats
- Dependent Packages Counts - 1.1K
requests Vulnerabilities
- Insufficiently Protected Credentials in RequestsHigh
- Requests `Session` object does not verify requests after making first request with verify=FalseModerate
- Python Requests Session FixationModerate
urllib3 Vulnerabilities
- Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in urllib3Critical
- Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser when passed URL containing many @ charactersHigh
- Improper Certificate Validation in urllib3High
requests Release info
Latest version
2.32.3
Apache-2.0
urllib3 Release info
Latest version
2.2.2
MIT
What is requests?
Python HTTP for Humans.
What is urllib3?
HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.
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What are some alternatives to requests and urllib3?
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
jQuery UI
Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.