--- title: requests Reviews meta\_title: 'requests Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 10 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how requests works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 10 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # requests Reviews & Product Details Requests is the only Non-GMO HTTP library for Python, safe for human consumption. Requests allows you to send organic, grass-fed HTTP/1.1 requests, without the need for manual labor. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-e * * * Seller [requests](https://www.g2.com/sellers/requests) Discussions [requests Community](https://www.g2.com/products/requests/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Essential Studio](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Essential Studio") Essential Studio 4.5/5(797) ](https://www.g2.com/products/essential-studio/reviews) [ ![Selenium WebDriver](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Selenium WebDriver") Selenium WebDriver 4.5/5(101) ](https://www.g2.com/products/selenium-webdriver/reviews) [ ![Progress Kendo UI](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Progress Kendo UI") Progress Kendo UI 4.4/5(257) ](https://www.g2.com/products/progress-kendo-ui/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/requests/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 10 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Sunny .](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sunny .") S Sunny . Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/25/2023 "Requests Library For Python Review" 5/5 What do you like best about requests? Requests is one the easy to use Python Library that helps in fetching data from websites alongwith maintaining sessions using cookies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about requests? It is useful when debugging or small amount of data is to be fetched or posted in backend, but lack of GUI makes it difficult to use for Bigger Tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is requests solving and how is that benefiting you? I use requests at backend of my Python Flask Website for debugging purpose and to check correct working of my API's. Being in Python helps in reusing the code from development which saves time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MR Manoharan R. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/2/2023 "Smoothning HTTP requests" 4.5/5 What do you like best about requests? I like that requests is constantly evolving and being improved upon. It maybe great to have functionalities added in the form of functions or methods. At the end its the go to tool, for Python developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about requests? Requests is a framework for making HTTP requests. Lacks certain advanced features. It may not be suitable, for scenarios that require authentication methods or handling intricate data structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is requests solving and how is that benefiting you? Requests is a library that has effectively help me in solving the issue of simplifying and smoothning HTTP requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![ISAIAS G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ISAIAS G.") IG ISAIAS G. Pentester Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/4/2022 "Requests, the framework for requests par excellence" 5/5 What do you like best about requests? What I like most about this framework is its great documentation. Being a widely used framework, there is extensive documentation available online. Additionally, it is relatively fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about requests? What I dislike the most is that they should continue developing this framework. Above all, I miss more features in the form of functions or methods. Other than that, everything is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is requests solving and how is that benefiting you? It is a framework that I use in my day-to-day for making basic requests (GET), as well as for any type of communication through HTTP requests. It is a great and powerful framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 inviteAI Translated ![Manikant K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Manikant K.") MK Manikant K. Staff Data Scientist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/16/2022 "A perfect library for calling for restful api's." 5/5 What do you like best about requests? Best of all the frameworks and libraries being used in python for connecting restful api's Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about requests? anything that i can think of as of now. Its just the best that is being used by all Python developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is requests solving and how is that benefiting you? connecting to all rest end points with python langaguage. a great community and set of documents and developers to help out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/15/2021 "Requests is the best HTTP library for Python" 5/5 What do you like best about requests? How easy it is to make a request. No need to manually do headers since it's just a dictionary. Plus you can have the response come back in JSON format with just a method call. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about requests? Not really a lot of downsides since it works very well and it gets a lot of updates for fixes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is requests solving and how is that benefiting you? I use requests for any HTTP call for Python. It really makes using those calls much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Siraset J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Siraset J.") SJ Siraset J. Lead Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/28/2021 "Requests : Python Package for Humans" 5/5 What do you like best about requests? Request composing is very easy. Good for customizing and scripting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about requests? Quite hard to deal with js rendering page or single page app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering requests: If you like to code with python and wanna have something that help you get through building a http request you should try this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is requests solving and how is that benefiting you? I use it for web scraping, automate ops task. The real benefit is it is python package Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite AM Andre M. Graphic Designer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/10/2019 "One essential tool to have." 4.5/5 What do you like best about requests? Let's see: Easy to use, fast, easy to configure proxies, easy to catch errors, lots of resources online teaching about requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about requests? Nothing comes to mind. If you already know HTTP requests, learning how to use this tool isn't hard at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering requests: Requests is an essential tool for automating, testing, and accessing websites and APIs. This is not a complicated tool; it's quite easy to understand and learn how to use it, but don't get me wrong, Requests also possess more complex functions, such as preserving cookies between requests with Sessions and the ability to use HTTP and HTTPS proxies. This is a tool I always use when creating scripts for online automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is requests solving and how is that benefiting you? I use to bulk download files, to check if links are online, to download data about images when possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Lais R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lais R.") LR Lais R. Graphic Designer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/2/2019 "Requests Review" 5/5 What do you like best about requests? Requests is easy to use, even if you are new to Python or HTTP request; you can preserve cookies and headers across requests with ease using Session, easy to use proxies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about requests? I don't have complaints or something I dislike. Most errors I come across are my fault, bad coding, failing to configure proxies or forgetting to use cookies, little mistakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering requests: The requests library is well documented with an active community, you can easily find the answer for most questions. Another advantage is Session, which helps preserve cookies, headers across requests and for me, in-built solutions are always welcome, and you don't need to import additional library if the response returns JSON. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is requests solving and how is that benefiting you? I use requests in all scripts I create to help me download and properly label images for my work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Rahul I.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rahul I.") RI Rahul I. Graduate Research Assistant Internet Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/14/2019 "Excellent Library" 5/5 What do you like best about requests? The library provides a great, simple API to interact with the network and perform http requests at ease. Supports most of the security features needed as well as cookies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about requests? Nothing in particular. Everything seems to be perfect and has great testing features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering requests: Excellent library to include http support in the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is requests solving and how is that benefiting you? Simple application development Excellent library to perform REST/SOAP requests. Testing features are also very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/requests/pricing) requests Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_8c39a15be7feccc4c67a581759c31f3c/selenium-webdriver.png "Product Avatar Image") Selenium WebDriver 4.5/5(101) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/selenium-webdriver-vs-requests) ## Work at requests? Claim this profile to respond to reviews, update product info, and reach in-market buyers. 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