As someone who has written a few API client libraries and works on Requests a bit, I realize I have some overlapping knowledge that I need to share. There are some patterns I've found from building my own API client libraries and helping developers of other client libraries. I hesitate …

Tonight marks the release of Betamax 0.5.0. Beyond just reworking the documentation, it also marks the addition of two integrations with popular testing frameworks. Betamax now ships with a pytest fixture that provides an instantiated Session that is being recorded by Betamax. Let's look at how we might …

This year I gave the talk "Cutting Off the Internet: Testing Applications that Use Requests" at PyTennessee and PyCon. The recording of the talk is already online with my slides.

At the end of my talk, I promised to write a blog post going into far more detail and covering …

This year was my second year attending PyCon North America (a.k.a., PyCon US) and once again I loved every second of it.

tl;dr I didn't see a lot of talks in person but I spoke to a large number of people this year and made some great …

It is my distinct pleasure to announce the 0.4.0 release of the requests toolbelt. This version comes almost a year after the release of 0.3.1.

A lot of work was put into the toolbelt in those 10 months though. We reorganized the documentation to make it …

On August 2nd, 2013 I opened issue 122 on github3.py's issue tracker. The driving force behind the "Roadmap for 1.0" was to clean up an API that I fundamentally disliked. Yesterday, on December 7th, 2014, I released the first alpha version of 1.0. The following is …

This is the second in what I hope will be a series of explorations of advanced features in requests.

Websites and servers sometimes, misbehave. They can misbehave in a number of ways:

• read errors
• large numbers of redirects
• failure to connect
• 500 errors

What most people don't know is that …

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of explorations of advanced and lesser known features in requests.

Recently, the requests team released version 2.4.3. In this version, we had a very significant new feature released that was contributed by Carol Willing. It has …

tl;dr dispatch_hook now sends the keyword arguments that were originally sent with the request. Hook authors should modify their hooks to accept them and resend them.

This morning Kenneth published (on PyPI and Crate) requests 1.2.0 which included a lot of very important changes. One, which will …