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This is a nice wrapper around requests, pyquery https://github.com/gawel/pyquery/ https://github.com/gawel/pyquery/ and parse https://github.com/r1chardj0n3s/pa

by brilee 9y ago

This is a nice wrapper around requests, pyquery https://github.com/gawel/pyquery/ https://github.com/gawel/pyquery/ and parse https://github.com/r1chardj0n3s/parse https://github.com/r1chardj0n3s/parse of which only requests is Kenneth Reitz. Let's give credit where it's due.

ak217 9y ago
To give even more credit where it's due, requests is a nice wrapper around urllib3, which is the work of Andrey Petrov, Cory Benfield and contributors. While requests provides good user-friendly defaults and API semantics, urllib3 does a lot of the heavy lifting.
- kenneth_reitz 9y ago
  It wasn't at first, actually. It was originally a wrapper around urllib2 — Andrey and I collabed early on in both project's histories to make them what they are today.
- halflings 9y ago
  requests does much more on top of urllib3 than this new requests-html does on top of requests + pyquery. It greatly simplifies the most common patterns in doing HTTP requests; things like authentication, passing headers, retry logic, etc.
- tty7 9y ago
  Which is written in python, so better give credit for that. Wow and now python is in C so line up your credit books, we are in for a long night tonight. Thoughts & prays for all contributors
  - d33 9y ago
    ...I know you're trolling, but I seriously wonder where it would stop if we were to go down all that way.
    - patneedham 9y ago
      Gotta give credit to whichever cavemen/cavewomen discovered fire, and all the civilizations that invented the wheel, Ben Franklin for harnessing the power of electricity, and then maybe Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for inventing Unix.
      - nojvek 9y ago
        Credit to Evolution who eventually invented humans?
        nurettin 9y ago
        Credit to a particular male God who made humans invent himself and then took credit for everything that ever existed?
        rburhum 9y ago
        Are we going to start talking about broken arms in HNs, too?
  - 0172 9y ago
    To quote Carl Sagan, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
amenod 9y ago
I think most people around here know this, but it doesn't really matter. We love `requests` because of its API, which is what Kenneth Reitz contributed. There are many competing HTTP client libs, but only one (that I know of) with intuitive syntax; I hope others follow suit. APIs are not just something that you slam on top of your lib, they should be developed in the same way every other interface is - UX is usually much more important than just pure performance.
iiv 9y ago
What do you mean "give credit where it's due"? It's not common (in my experience) to thank every dependency's creator, right?
- brilee 9y ago
  In about half of the examples, the methods are more user-friendly wrappers around underlying libraries - great! love it! In the other half of the examples, the niceness of the API is in fact due to the user-friendly design of the underlying PyQuery/Parse libraries. So I want to give credit to their good APIs, too.

by brilee 9y ago

ak217 9y ago

To give even more credit where it's due, requests is a nice wrapper around urllib3, which is the work of Andrey Petrov, Cory Benfield and contributors. While requests provides good user-friendly defaults and API semantics, urllib3 does a lot of the heavy lifting.

kenneth_reitz 9y ago
It wasn't at first, actually. It was originally a wrapper around urllib2 — Andrey and I collabed early on in both project's histories to make them what they are today.
halflings 9y ago
requests does much more on top of urllib3 than this new requests-html does on top of requests + pyquery. It greatly simplifies the most common patterns in doing HTTP requests; things like authentication, passing headers, retry logic, etc.
tty7 9y ago
Which is written in python, so better give credit for that. Wow and now python is in C so line up your credit books, we are in for a long night tonight. Thoughts & prays for all contributors
- d33 9y ago
  ...I know you're trolling, but I seriously wonder where it would stop if we were to go down all that way.
  - patneedham 9y ago
    Gotta give credit to whichever cavemen/cavewomen discovered fire, and all the civilizations that invented the wheel, Ben Franklin for harnessing the power of electricity, and then maybe Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for inventing Unix.
    - nojvek 9y ago
      Credit to Evolution who eventually invented humans?
      - nurettin 9y ago
        Credit to a particular male God who made humans invent himself and then took credit for everything that ever existed?
        rburhum 9y ago
        Are we going to start talking about broken arms in HNs, too?
- 0172 9y ago
  To quote Carl Sagan, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

amenod 9y ago

I think most people around here know this, but it doesn't really matter. We love `requests` because of its API, which is what Kenneth Reitz contributed. There are many competing HTTP client libs, but only one (that I know of) with intuitive syntax; I hope others follow suit. APIs are not just something that you slam on top of your lib, they should be developed in the same way every other interface is - UX is usually much more important than just pure performance.

iiv 9y ago

What do you mean "give credit where it's due"? It's not common (in my experience) to thank every dependency's creator, right?

brilee 9y ago
In about half of the examples, the methods are more user-friendly wrappers around underlying libraries - great! love it! In the other half of the examples, the niceness of the API is in fact due to the user-friendly design of the underlying PyQuery/Parse libraries. So I want to give credit to their good APIs, too.