This document summarizes the Python requests library. It introduces requests, noting it was created by Kenneth Reitz and is based on urllib3 but improved. It lists requests features like keep-alive, sessions, authentication, and file uploads. Installation via pip or source is covered. Examples are provided for GET, POST, response codes, file uploads and headers. Finally, a demo of downloading from PacktPub using requests is mentioned.

1. Introduction to
Python-Requests
Abhijeet Kasurde - @pyro46

2. About Me
- Full time Python Programmer
- Works for Red Hat
- Contributor to various projects like DNF, FreeIPA
- Loves to tinker around various Python libraries

3. Agenda
● Introduction to requests
● Why use it
● Installation
● Examples
● A fun way to use this library - Demo

4. Introduction to
Requests
1. Created by Kenneth Reitz
2. Documentation -
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/
3. Source - https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
4. Based on urllib3
5. Better than urllib and urllib2

5. Why ? ● Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
● Sessions with Cookie Persistence
● Basic/Digest Authentication
● Multipart File Uploads
● Streaming Downloads
● Connection Timeouts
● Chunked Requests

6. Installation
● Pip
● Installation from source

7. Example
● Simple get - example.1.py
● Simple post - example.2.py
● Response code - example.3.py
● https://github.com/Akasurde/xchat-auto
paster/blob/master/xchat-autopaster.py
#L89
● File Upload - example.4.py
● Headers - example.5.py

8. Packt - Demo
● PacktPub downloader

9. Thanks
@pyro46