🔒 HTTP client recommendations

[sleek warren]

Hi all, I was using requests for some API calls, but I notice it does not support global timeouts (without some hacking involved).

Can I get recommendations for a http client library that:

• supports global timeouts
• support caching, either officially or with another library. I want caching only to test the code locally, so I dont make the same requests each time I run it.
• (optinal) supports async

Thank you in advance

[pine geyser]

@sleek warren

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[digital gyro]

Try httpx

!pip httpx

[pine geyser]

httpx v0.28.1

The next generation HTTP client.

Released on <t:1733499443:D>.

[digital gyro]

It has timeout https://www.python-httpx.org/advanced/timeouts/

https://www.python-httpx.org/compatibility/#caching caching included

And async support https://www.python-httpx.org/async/

[sleek warren]

So if I want a "global" timeout, I share a Client around, right?

Makes sense to me

I wonder why requests does not have something similar to a Client. The closest thing would be a Session, I think

Thank you for the recommendation

[sleek warren]

Sorry, another question, can I enable/disable Hishel (the caching component httpx suggests) conditionally?
E.g. not using Hishel (or at least disable it) when running the code in prod?

[digital gyro]

I was not aware of hishel but yes you can https://hishel.com/advanced/extensions/#cache_disabled

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