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layout: default
title: "Requests"
nav_order: 19
has_children: true
---
# Tutorial: Requests
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Requests<sup>[View Repo](https://github.com/psf/requests/tree/0e322af87745eff34caffe4df68456ebc20d9068/src/requests)</sup> is a Python library that makes sending *HTTP requests* incredibly simple.
Instead of dealing with complex details, you can use straightforward functions (like `requests.get()`) or **Session objects** to interact with web services.
It automatically handles things like *cookies*, *redirects*, *authentication*, and connection pooling, returning easy-to-use **Response objects** with all the server's data.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
A0["Request & Response Models"]
A1["Session"]
A2["Transport Adapters"]
A3["Functional API"]
A4["Authentication Handlers"]
A5["Cookie Jar"]
A6["Exception Hierarchy"]
A7["Hook System"]
A3 -- "Uses temporary" --> A1
A1 -- "Prepares/Receives" --> A0
A1 -- "Manages & Uses" --> A2
A1 -- "Manages" --> A5
A1 -- "Manages" --> A4
A1 -- "Manages" --> A7
A2 -- "Sends/Builds" --> A0
A4 -- "Modifies (adds headers)" --> A0
A5 -- "Populates/Reads" --> A0
A7 -- "Operates on" --> A0
A0 -- "Can Raise (raise_for_status)" --> A6
A2 -- "Raises Connection Errors" --> A6
```