thttp

thttp is a single file, lightweight, well-tested wrapper around urllib that's intended to be copied directly into your project.

It's features include:

• Making GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, HEAD and OPTIONS requests
• Sending query parameters with your request
• Encoding JSON payloads for POST, PATCH and PUT requests
• Encoding form-encoded payloads for POST, PATCH and PUT request
• Sending custom headers with any request
• Disabling SSL certificate verification for local testing / corporate proxies
• Following (or not following) redirects
• Sending through a CookieJar object that can be reused between requests
• Authenticating with HTTP basic auth
• Specifying a custom timeout for your request
• Decompressing gzipped content in the response
• Loading JSON from the response
• Returning error responses instead of throwing exceptions from urllib
• pretty() function for printing responses

Future features:

• Better detection of JSON responses
• Improve handling of non-utf-8 requests
• Improve handling of non-utf-8 responses

Note: this project is not intended to solve all use cases that can be achieved with urllib, requests or other HTTP libraries. The intent is to provide a lightweight tool that simplifies some of the most common use cases for developers.

Installation

copy thttp.py directly into your project:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sesh/thttp/main/thttp.py > thttp.py

Or, install with pip:

python3 -m pip install thttp

Basic Usage

See the tests for examples of usage, but, effectively it's as simple as:

from thttp import request

response = request("https://httpbingo.org/get", params={"data": "empty"})

response.json
# {'args': {'data': ['empty']}, 'headers': {'Accept-Encoding': ['identity'], 'Fly-Client-Ip': ['45.76.105.111'], 'Fly-Forwarded-Port': ['443'], 'Fly-Forwarded-Proto': ['https'], 'Fly-Forwarded-Ssl': ['on'], 'Fly-Region': ['hkg'], 'Fly-Request-Id': ['01F6P2WQAY1NGPRDCXV9H60XW5'], 'Host': ['httpbingo.org'], 'User-Agent': ['Python-urllib/3.8'], 'Via': ['1.1 fly.io'], 'X-Forwarded-For': ['45.76.105.111, 77.83.142.42'], 'X-Forwarded-Port': ['443'], 'X-Forwarded-Proto': ['https'], 'X-Forwarded-Ssl': ['on'], 'X-Request-Start': ['t=1622091390302198']}, 'origin': '45.76.105.111, 77.83.142.42', 'url': 'https://httpbingo.org/get?data=empty'}

response.status
# 200

Running the tests

> python3 -m unittest thttp.py

And to check the coverage:

> coverage run -m unittest thttp.py
> coverage html && open htmlcov/index.html

Run black before committing any changes.

> black thttp.py

Packaging for release

rm dist/*
python3 -m build
python3 -m twine upload dist/*