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HTTPX API reference

HTTPX async HTTP client

Identifiers: 12
With full guides: 10
Types: 2

Topics covered

Client & AsyncClient
Requests
Async requests
Streaming
Timeouts & limits
Auth
Proxies
Testing

Class

Name	What it does
`Client`	AsyncClient is HTTPX’s reusable asynchronous client for making HTTP requests. It provides connection pooling and related client features and can be shared between tasks.
`AsyncClient`	HTTPX AsyncClient is an asynchronous, reusable HTTP client with connection pooling and shared configuration. Use it with await and manage its lifetime with an async context manager or aclose().
`Response`	HTTPX Response represents the result of an HTTP request. It provides status and protocol metadata, headers, URL information, body access, status validation, and synchronous or asynchronous streaming operations.
`Request`	`httpx.Request` is HTTPX’s low-level model for constructing an HTTP request before transmission. It is useful when request preparation and sending need to be separate.
`Limits`	Class
`Timeout`	HTTPX Timeout configures maximum waiting periods for connection, reading, writing, and connection-pool acquisition. Set one default value or override individual phases with named arguments.
`URL`	Class

Function

Name	What it does
`httpx.get`	Sends a synchronous HTTP GET request using HTTPX's top-level API and returns its response. Optional arguments control query parameters, headers, authentication, redirects, TLS verification, timeouts, proxies, and environment settings.
`httpx.post`	Sends a synchronous HTTP POST request and returns an `httpx.Response`. It supports multiple body encodings plus query parameters, headers, authentication, proxy, timeout, redirect, TLS, and environment settings.
`stream`	Streams an asynchronous HTTP response instead of loading its entire body into memory at once. Use it as an async context block and consume the response with HTTPX async iterators.
`get`	`AsyncClient.get` asynchronously performs an HTTP GET request and returns an HTTPX response. Await the call, and manage the client with an async context manager or explicit closure.
`aclose`	`AsyncClient.aclose()` asynchronously closes the client's transport and proxies. Await it when explicitly managing an `AsyncClient` instead of relying on an async context manager.

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