About
Restkit is an HTTP resource kit for Python <http://python.org>. It allows
you to easily access to HTTP resource and build objects around it. It's the
base of couchdbkit <http://www.couchdbkit.org> a Python CouchDB <http://couchdb.org>_ framework.
Restkit is a full HTTP client using pure socket calls and its own HTTP parser.
It's not based on httplib or urllib2.
Features
- Full compatible HTTP client for HTTP 1.0 and 1.1
- Threadsafe
- Use pure socket calls and its own HTTP parser (It's not based on httplib or urllib2)
- Map HTTP resources to Python objects
- Read and Send on the fly
- Reuses connections
Eventlet <http://www.eventlet.net>_ andGevent <http://www.gevent.org>_ support- Support
Chunked transfer encoding_ in both ways. - Support
Basic Authentification_ andOAuth_. - Multipart forms and url-encoded forms
- Streaming support
- Proxy handling
- HTTP Filters, you can hook requests in responses with your own callback
- Compatible with Python 2.x (>= 2.6)
Documentation
http://restkit.readthedocs.org
Installation
restkit requires Python 2.x superior to 2.6 (Python 3 support is coming soon)
To install restkit using pip you must make sure you have a
recent version of distribute installed::
$ curl -O http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py
$ sudo python distribute_setup.py
$ easy_install pip
To install from source, run the following command::
$ git clone https://github.com/benoitc/restkit.git
$ cd restkit
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python setup.py install
From pypi::
$ pip install restkit
License
restkit is available under the MIT license.
.. _Chunked transfer encoding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding
.. _Basic Authentification: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt
.. _OAuth: http://oauth.net/