httpx: The Python HTTP Client That Should Have Replaced Requests Years Ago

Requests Is Showing Its Age requests is the most popular Python HTTP library. It's also stuck in 2012. No async support. No HTTP/2. No type hints. httpx is the modern replacement: same simple API, plus async, HTTP/2, and better performance. Same API, More Features import httpx # Synchronous (drop-in replacement for requests) resp = httpx . get ( " https://api.openalex.org/works?search=python&per_page=3 " ) print ( resp . json ()[ " results " ][ 0 ][ " title " ]) # POST with JSON resp = httpx . post ( " https://httpbin.org/post " , json = { " key " : " value " }) # Headers resp = httpx . get ( " https://api.example.com/data " , headers = { " Authorization " : " Bearer token123 " }) # Timeout resp = httpx . get ( " https://slow-api.example.com " , timeout = 30.0 ) Async Support (The Killer Feature) import httpx import asyncio async def fetch_papers ( queries ): async with httpx . AsyncClient () as client : tasks = [ client . get ( " https://api.openalex.org/works " , params = { " search