Welcome to human_curl's documentation!

Curl requests for Humans

human_curl allow you to send HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, OPTIONS, and DELETE HTTP requests.

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Features

• Custom HTTP headers
• Request data/params
• Multiple file uploading
• Async requests!
• Cookies support (dict or CookieJar)
• Redirection history
• Proxy support (http, https, socks4/5)
• Custom interface for request!
• Auto decompression of GZipped content
• Unicode URL support
• Request timers and another info
• Certificate validation
• ipv6 support
• Basic/Digest authentication
• OAuth support!
• Debug request and response headers
• .netrc support

Usage

Simple get request

>>> import human_curl as requests # python-requests.org compatibile
>>> # import human_curl as hurl # unfortunately hurl.it keeps this name :-)
>>> r = hurl.get('http://h.wrttn.me/basic-auth/test_username/test_password',
... auth=('test_username', 'test_password'))
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> r.content
'{"username": "test_username", "password": "test_password", "authenticated": true}'

Cookies and headers

>>> import human_curl as hurl # python-requests.org compatibile
>>> r = hurl.get("http://h.wrttn.me/cookies/set/ajfwjlknefjrrf/fkjwnfklrnjge")
>>> r.cookies
    {'ajfwjlknefjrrf': 'fkjwnfklrnjge'}
>>> r.headers['etag']
    bf21a9e8fbc5a3846fb05b4fa0859e0917b2202f
>>> r.headers
    {'connection': 'keep-alive',
     'content-length': '2',
     'content-type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8',
     'date': 'Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:28:47 GMT',
     'etag': 'bf21a9e8fbc5a3846fb05b4fa0859e0917b2202f',
     'server': 'LightBeer/0.568'}

Send files and variables

>>> import human_curl as hurl
>>> r = hurl.post('http://h.wrttn.me/post', files=(('file_1', '/tmp/testfile1.txt'),
... ('file2', open('/tmp/testfile2.txt'))), data={'var_name': 'var_value'})
>>> r.status_code
201

Redirects

>>> import human_curl as hurl
>>> r = hurl.get('http://h.wrttn.me/redirect/4', allow_redirects=True)
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> print(r.history)
['http://h.wrttn.me/redirect/3', 'http://h.wrttn.me/redirect/2',
 'http://h.wrttn.me/redirect/1', 'http://h.wrttn.me/redirect/end']
>>> print(r.url)
http://h.wrttn.me/redirect/end

Auth managers

>>> import human_curl as hurl
>>> from human_curl.auth import BasicAuth, DigestAuth
>>> auth_manager = DigesAuth('username', 'password')
>>> r = hurl.post('http://h.wrttn.me/digest-auth/auth/username/password',
... auth=auth_manager)
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> basic_auth_manager = BasicAuth('username', 'password')
>>> r = hurl.post('http://h.wrttn.me/basic-auth/username/password',
... auth=basic_auth_manager)
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> oauth_manager = OAuthManager((CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET), (TOKEN_KEY, TOKEN_SECRET))
>>> r = hurl.get('http://oauth-protected.com/resource', auth=oauth_manager)
>>> r.status_code
200

Debug requests

>>> import human_curl as hurl
>>> # stdout_debug(debug_type, debug_msg)
>>> r = hurl.get("https://h.wrttn.me/basic-auth/username/password",
... debug=stdout_debug, allow_redirects=False,
... auth=("username", "password"))
>>> print(r.status_code)
200

Async requests

>>> from human_curl.async import AsyncClient
>>> async_client = AsyncClient(success_callback=lambda **kw: print kw,
... fail_callback=lambda **kw: print kw)
>>> async_client.get('http://h.wrttn.me/get')
>>> async_client.get('http://httpbin.org/get',
... success_callback=lambda **kw: print("success!"),
... fail_callback=lambda **kw: print("fail!")
>>> async_client.start()

TODO

• curl command generation?

INSTALLATION

To use human_curl use pip or easy_install:

pip install human_curl

or

easy_install human_curl

CONTRIBUTE

Fork https://github.com/Lispython/human_curl/ , create commit and pull request to develop.

SEE ALSO

If you don't like cURL (why?), try to use python-requests_.

.. _python-requests: http://python-requests.org