GAgabrielsroka·Mar 28, 2025
I talked about that in my readme
https://github.com/gabrielsroka/r
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a small subset of Python Requests
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https://github.com/gabrielsroka/r
https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html
https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.client.html
A more complete example:
import http.client
import urllib.parse
import json as _json
import re
import time
# Set these:
host = 'example.okta.com'
token = ....'
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection(host)
headers = {'authorization': 'SSWS ' + token}
def main():
res = get('/api/v1/users/me')
me = res.json
user_id = me['id']
print(me['id'])
start = time.time()
for user in get_objects('/api/v1/users', filter='profile.lastName eq "Doe"', limit=2):
print(user['id'])
end = time.time()
print(f'{end - start:5.1f} sec (http.client)')
# Update a user.
# res =
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post('/api/v1/users/' + user_id, {'profile': {'title': 'admin'}})
# me = res.json
# print(me['profile']['title'], res.headers['x-rate-limit-remaining'])
def rh(method, url, json=None):
_headers = headers.copy()
if json:
body = _json.dumps(json, separators=(',', ':')).encode()
_headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
else:
body = None
conn.request(method, url, body, _headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
if res.reason != 'No Content':
res.json = _json.load(res)
return res
def get_objects(url, **fields):
if fields: url += '?' + urllib.parse.urlencode(fields)
while url:
res = get(url)
for o in res.json:
yield o
links = [link for link in res.headers.get_all('link') if 'rel="next"' in link]
url = re.search('<https://[^/]+(.+)>', links[0]).group(1) if links else None
def get(url):
return rh('GET', url)
def post(url, json=None):
return rh('POST', url, json)
main()
Show HN: R.py, a small subset of Python Requests
i revisited the work that i started in 2022 re: writing a subset of Requests but using the standard library: https://github.com/gabrielsroka/r
back then, i tried using urllib.request (from the standard library, not urllib3) but it lacks what Requests/urllib3 has -- connection pools and keep alive [or that's where i thought the magic was] -- so my code ran much slower.
it turns out that urllib.request uses http.client, but it closes the connection. so by using http.client directly, i can keep the connection open [that's where the real magic is]. now my code runs as fast as Requests/urllib3, but in 5 lines of code instead of 4,000-15,000+
moral of the story: RTFM over and over and over again.
"""Fetch users from the Okta API and paginate."""
import http.client
import json
import re
import urllib.parse
# Set these:
host =
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'domain.okta.com'
token = 'xxx'
url = '/api/v1/users?' + urllib.parse.urlencode({'filter': 'profile.lastName eq "Doe"'})
headers = {'authorization': 'SSWS ' + token}
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection(host)
while url:
conn.request('GET', url, headers=headers)
res = conn.getresponse()
for user in json.load(res):
print(user['id'])
links = [link for link in res.headers.get_all('link') if 'rel="next"' in link]
url = re.search('<https://[^/]+(.+)>', links[0]).group(1) if links else None
https://docs.python.org/3/library/urllib.request.html
https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.client.html
R: A small subset of Python Requests
1 points · Open discussionI agree. Requests library is overkill for some simple use cases. Here are 2 short examples, using urllib and urllib3.
https://github.com/gabrielsroka/r/
In Python core dev says “It's now time to deprecate the stdlib urllib module”Show HN: r.py, a small subset of Python Requests
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