RequestX Documentation¶

RequestX is a high-performance HTTP client library for Python that provides a drop-in replacement for the popular requests library. Built with Rust for speed and memory safety, it offers both synchronous and asynchronous APIs while maintaining full compatibility with the familiar requests interface.

🚀 Key Features¶

Drop-in replacement for requests library with identical API
High performance leveraging Rust’s speed and memory safety
Dual API support - both sync and async/await patterns
Cross-platform compatibility (Windows, macOS, Linux)
Requests compatibility for easy migration from existing codebases
Native async/await support with automatic context detection
Session management with persistent connections and cookies
Comprehensive error handling with requests-compatible exceptions

⚡ Performance¶

RequestX delivers significant performance improvements over traditional Python HTTP libraries:

2-5x faster than requests for synchronous operations
3-10x faster than aiohttp for asynchronous operations
Lower memory usage due to Rust’s efficient memory management
Better connection pooling with hyper’s advanced HTTP/2 support

📦 Quick Installation¶

pip install requestx

🔥 Quick Start¶

RequestX works exactly like requests - just change the import:

# Before (requests)
import requests

response = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/json')
print(response.json())

# After (requestx) - same API!
import requestx

response = requestx.get('https://httpbin.org/json')
print(response.json())

Async/await support:

import asyncio
import requestx

async def main():
    # Same API, but now works in async context!
    response = await requestx.get('https://httpbin.org/json')
    print(response.json())

asyncio.run(main())

📚 Documentation Contents¶

User Guide

API Reference

API Reference

🤝 Community & Support¶

GitHub: https://github.com/neuesql/requestx
Issues: https://github.com/neuesql/requestx/issues
Discussions: https://github.com/neuesql/requestx/discussions

📄 License¶

RequestX is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.