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urllib3 is a powerful, *user-friendly* HTTP client for Python. Much of the
Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too.
urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python
standard libraries:

- Thread safety.
- Connection pooling.
- Client-side SSL/TLS verification.
- File uploads with multipart encoding.
- Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects.
- Support for gzip, deflate, and brotli encoding.
- Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS.
- 100% test coverage.

urllib3 is powerful and easy to use:

.. code-block:: python

    >>> import urllib3
    >>> http = urllib3.PoolManager()
    >>> r = http.request('GET', 'http://httpbin.org/robots.txt')
    >>> r.status
    200
    >>> r.data
    'User-agent: *\nDisallow: /deny\n'


Installing
----------

urllib3 can be installed with `pip <https://pip.pypa.io>`_::

    $ python -m pip install urllib3

Alternatively, you can grab the latest source code from `GitHub <https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3>`_::

    $ git clone https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3.git
    $ cd urllib3
    $ git checkout 1.26.x
    $ pip install .


Documentation
-------------

urllib3 has usage and reference documentation at `urllib3.readthedocs.io <https://urllib3.readthedocs.io>`_.


Contributing
------------

urllib3 happily accepts contributions. Please see our
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for some tips on getting started.


Security Disclosures
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Maintainers
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- `@sethmlarson <https://github.com/sethmlarson>`__ (Seth M. Larson)
- `@pquentin <https://github.com/pquentin>`__ (Quentin Pradet)
- `@theacodes <https://github.com/theacodes>`__ (Thea Flowers)
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- `@sigmavirus24 <https://github.com/sigmavirus24>`__ (Ian Stapleton Cordasco)
- `@shazow <https://github.com/shazow>`__ (Andrey Petrov)

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