An old classic that does something similar is Snoopy: http://snoopy.sourceforge.net/ http://snoopy.sourceforge.net/ Not sure if/why Requests is any better, but

An old classic that does something similar is Snoopy: http://snoopy.sourceforge.net/ http://snoopy.sourceforge.net/ Not sure if/why Requests is any better, but it certainly seems to have better documentation which is reason enough to use it I suppose!