Basic

Introduction#

HTTPX is a powerful and user-friendly HTTP client that allows developers to make HTTP requests with ease.

It offers support for asynchronous programming, HTTP/2, and connection pooling.

Getting Started#

Clone the httpx-basic project:

git clone https://gitlab.com/xtec/python/httpx-basic.git

Start the Fastapi server:

cd httpx-basic
uv run app/main.py

Open the client.py file that is on the project root:

import json

import httpx


def main():

    response = httpx.get('http://localhost:8000/person/1')
    data = response.json()
    print(json.dumps(data, indent=4))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

This script imports the httpx package and makes a GET request to the endpoint http://localhost:8000/person/1

Run this script; you should observe output similar to the following:

{
    "id": 1,
    "name": "David",
    "surname": "de Mingo"
}