Change requests to httpx https://github.com/encode/httpx

Features

HTTPX builds on the well-established usability of requests, and gives you:

• A broadly requests-compatible API.
• Standard synchronous interface, but with async support if you need it.
• HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 support.
• Ability to make requests directly to WSGI applications or ASGI applications.
• Strict timeouts everywhere.
• Fully type annotated.
• 99% test coverage.

Plus all the standard features of requests...

• International Domains and URLs
• Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
• Sessions with Cookie Persistence
• Browser-style SSL Verification
• Basic/Digest Authentication
• Elegant Key/Value Cookies
• Automatic Decompression
• Automatic Content Decoding
• Unicode Response Bodies
• Multipart File Uploads
• HTTP(S) Proxy Support
• Connection Timeouts
• Streaming Downloads
• .netrc Support
• Chunked Requests