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What do you like best about urllib3?

urllib3 is an amazing, HTTP client for Python. A significant part of the Python ecosystem as of now utilizes urllib3 . urllib3 brings numerous basic features that are absent from the Python standard libraries like Thread safety , Connection pooling , File uploads with multipart encoding . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about urllib3?

No disadvantages of urllib3 until now . As it is an upgrade to urllib2 of python which has additional features which is beneficial for python users . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It is getting regular updates and it is well maintained by python community as of now . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is urllib3 solving and how is that benefiting you?

we use urllib3 to Helpers for retrying requests and dealing with HTTP redirects . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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urllib3 is a powerful, sanity-friendly HTTP client for Python. Much of the Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries.

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urllib3 is a powerful, sanity-friendly HTTP client for Python. Much of the Python ecosystem already uses urllib3 and you should too. urllib3 brings many critical features that are missing from the Python standard libraries.

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urllib3 is a HTTP client for Python.It brings features likes Thread safety,Connection pooling,Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS, Its resolve url bl...
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What do you like best about urllib3?

urllib3 is a HTTP client for Python.It brings features likes Thread safety,Connection pooling,Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS, Its resolve url blocking issues while we are scraping multiple url, we can easly configure an IP poll for our scraper which resolve the url blocking issue.As is opensource we gets updates regular basics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about urllib3?

Mainly as such urllib3 have no such dislike, but i have to update my old code which i have written for lower version of urllib2,because some method name change in new versions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Urllib3 has more functionality that other clients of python, and we can easily configure the same. As its opensource we can reality get the updates and training docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is urllib3 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Basically we develop crawlers for different web sites, in which our program/spider sends multiple requests at a time, the request host blocks our host , But using urllib3 pooling/threading /Proxy support for HTTP and SOCKS. it resolve our blocking problem. we can easily configure the pools/proxy server/threads, which really helps us in it. We can send a secure requests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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My favourtite feature is that urllib3 has helpers for managing redirections at the target url. It can be used to create a pool of connections that can be used to make requests to multiple urls. The library has a very descriptive documentation with good code snippets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Advanced features a not easy to use like client side authentication, setting client certificates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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urllib3 provides safe and efficient methods of making requests using python mostly automate the extraction of data from multiple hosts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about urllib3?

I work in marketing and as a marketing data analyst, the constant question I have is how to get the data I need to do the projects I'm working on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about urllib3?

I think urllib3 is sometimes a challenge to use unless you come from a pure computer science background. The documentation is rather sparce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Urllib3 is definitely great for marketing workflows. A good thing to try out in any company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Urllib3 has let me pull data in an automated manner in ways i previously could only have done by hand one by one. It's heavily sped up my data analysis workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about urllib3?

It's like urllib2 but with some API changes. Takes a bit of time to get used to, but it's not much different from what you are used to with urllib2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about urllib3?

I wish urllib2 code would 100% port over to urllib3. It's annoying that I need to go refactor a lot of my code because urllib3 moved methods around or re-named methods. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is urllib3 solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm just trying to use it to load web pages and pull down content from the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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