Making Requests

treq.request(method, url, **kwargs)[source]

Make an HTTP request.

Parameters:
  • method (str) – HTTP method. Example: 'GET', 'HEAD'. 'PUT', 'POST'.
  • url (str) – http or https URL, which may include query arguments.
  • headers (Headers or None) – Optional HTTP Headers to send with this request.
  • params (dict w/ str or list/tuple of str values, list of 2-tuples, or None.) – Optional parameters to be append as the query string to the URL, any query string parameters in the URL already will be preserved.
  • data (str, file-like, IBodyProducer, or None) – Optional request body.
  • reactor – Optional twisted reactor.
  • persistent (bool) – Use persistent HTTP connections. Default: True
  • allow_redirects (bool) – Follow HTTP redirects. Default: True
  • auth (tuple of ('username', 'password').) – HTTP Basic Authentication information.
  • cookies (dict or cookielib.CookieJar) – Cookies to send with this request. The HTTP kind, not the tasty kind.
  • timeout (int) – Request timeout seconds. If a response is not received within this timeframe, a connection is aborted with CancelledError.
Return type:

Deferred that fires with an IResponse provider.

treq.get(url, headers=None, **kwargs)[source]

Make a GET request.

See treq.request()

treq.head(url, **kwargs)[source]

Make a HEAD request.

See treq.request()

treq.post(url, data=None, **kwargs)[source]

Make a POST request.

See treq.request()

treq.put(url, data=None, **kwargs)[source]

Make a PUT request.

See treq.request()

treq.patch(url, data=None, **kwargs)[source]

Make a PATCH request.

See treq.request()

treq.delete(url, **kwargs)[source]

Make a DELETE request.

See treq.request()

Accessing Content

treq.collect(response, collector)[source]

Incrementally collect the body of the response.

This function may only be called once for a given response.

Parameters:
  • response (IResponse) – The HTTP response to collect the body from.
  • collector (single argument callable) – A callable to be called each time data is available from the response body.
Return type:

Deferred that fires with None when the entire body has been read.

treq.content(response)[source]

Read the contents of an HTTP response.

This function may be called multiple times for a response, it uses a WeakKeyDictionary to cache the contents of the response.

Parameters:response (IResponse) – The HTTP Response to get the contents of.
Return type:Deferred that fires with the content as a str.
treq.text_content(response, encoding='ISO-8859-1')[source]

Read the contents of an HTTP response and decode it with an appropriate charset, which may be guessed from the Content-Type header.

Parameters:
  • response (IResponse) – The HTTP Response to get the contents of.
  • encoding (str) – An valid charset, such as UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1.
Return type:

Deferred that fires with a unicode.

treq.json_content(response)[source]

Read the contents of an HTTP response and attempt to decode it as JSON.

This function relies on content() and so may be called more than once for a given response.

Parameters:response (IResponse) – The HTTP Response to get the contents of.
Return type:Deferred that fires with the decoded JSON.

Responses

class treq.response.Response
collect(collector)

Incrementally collect the body of the response.

Parameters:collector – A single argument callable that will be called with chunks of body data as it is received.
Returns:A Deferred that fires when the entire body has been received.
content()

Read the entire body all at once.

Returns:A Deferred that fires with a bytes object when the entire body has been received.
text(encoding='ISO-8859-1')

Read the entire body all at once as text. :param encoding: An encoding for the body, if none is given the

encoding will be guessed, defaulting to this argument.
Returns:A Deferred that fires with a unicode object when the entire body has been received.
json()

Read the entire body all at once and decode it as JSON.

Returns:A Deferred that fires with the result of json.loads on the body after it has been received.
history()

Get a list of all responses that (such as intermediate redirects), that ultimately ended in the current response.

Returns:A list of treq.response.Response objects.
cookies()
Returns:A CookieJar.

Inherited from twisted.web.iweb.IResponse.

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code
phrase
headers
length
request
previousResponse
deliverBody(protocol)
setPreviousResponse(response)