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.

You can either clone the public repository:

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

Or, download the tarball:

$ curl -OL https://github.com/psf/requests/tarball/master
# 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 .