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-Requests: HTTP for Humans
-=========================
-
-**If you're interested in supporting Kenneth Reitz projects financially, visit `this link <https://cash.me/$KennethReitz>`_. It really helps with motivation!**
-
-.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/requests.svg
-    :target: https://pypi.org/project/requests/
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-
-Requests is the only *Non-GMO* HTTP library for Python, safe for human
-consumption.
-
-.. image:: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4317/35198386374_1939af3de6_k_d.jpg
-
-Behold, the power of Requests:
-
-.. code-block:: python
-
-    >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))
-    >>> r.status_code
-    200
-    >>> r.headers['content-type']
-    'application/json; charset=utf8'
-    >>> r.encoding
-    'utf-8'
-    >>> r.text
-    u'{"type":"User"...'
-    >>> r.json()
-    {u'disk_usage': 368627, u'private_gists': 484, ...}
-
-See `the similar code, sans Requests <https://gist.github.com/973705>`_.
-
-.. image:: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/requests/requests/master/docs/_static/requests-logo-small.png
-    :target: http://docs.python-requests.org/
-    
-
-
-
-Requests allows you to send *organic, grass-fed* HTTP/1.1 requests, without the
-need for manual labor. There's no need to manually add query strings to your
-URLs, or to form-encode your POST data. Keep-alive and HTTP connection pooling
-are 100% automatic, thanks to `urllib3 <https://github.com/shazow/urllib3>`_.
-
-Besides, all the cool kids are doing it. Requests is one of the most
-downloaded Python packages of all time, pulling in over 11,000,000 downloads
-every month. You don't want to be left out!
-
-Feature Support
----------------
-
-Requests is ready for today's web.
-
-- International Domains and URLs
-- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
-- Sessions with Cookie Persistence
-- Browser-style SSL Verification
-- Basic/Digest Authentication
-- Elegant Key/Value Cookies
-- Automatic Decompression
-- Automatic Content Decoding
-- Unicode Response Bodies
-- Multipart File Uploads
-- HTTP(S) Proxy Support
-- Connection Timeouts
-- Streaming Downloads
-- ``.netrc`` Support
-- Chunked Requests
-
-Requests officially supports Python 2.7 & 3.4–3.7, and runs great on PyPy.
-
-Installation
-------------
-
-To install Requests, simply use `pipenv <http://pipenv.org/>`_ (or pip, of course):
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
-    $ pipenv install requests
-    ✨🍰✨
-
-Satisfaction guaranteed.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-Fantastic documentation is available at http://docs.python-requests.org/, for a limited time only.
-
-
-How to Contribute
------------------
-
-#. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a feature idea or a bug. There is a `Contributor Friendly`_ tag for issues that should be ideal for people who are not very familiar with the codebase yet.
-#. Fork `the repository`_ on GitHub to start making your changes to the **master** branch (or branch off of it).
-#. Write a test which shows that the bug was fixed or that the feature works as expected.
-#. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS_.
-
-.. _`the repository`: https://github.com/requests/requests
-.. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/requests/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst
-.. _Contributor Friendly: https://github.com/requests/requests/issues?direction=desc&labels=Contributor+Friendly&page=1&sort=updated&state=open