Last updated 2026-05-20
Use this when you are scripting from Python — data pipelines, scrapers, CLI tools, automation. requests is the de facto HTTP client; httpx is a drop-in for sync + async needs.
{
"id": 1,
"firstName": "Emily",
"lastName": "Johnson",
"email": "emily.johnson@x.example",
"username": "emilys",
"image": "https://jsonexamples.com/image/200?text=User+1",
"address": {
"address": "626 Main Street",
"city": "Phoenix",
"state": "OK",
"postalCode": "29920",
"country": "United States"
}
}import requests
user = requests.get('https://jsonexamples.com/users/1', timeout=5).json()
print(user['firstName'])params = { 'limit': 10, 'skip': 0, 'select': 'firstName,lastName,email' }
resp = requests.get('https://jsonexamples.com/users', params=params, timeout=5)
resp.raise_for_status()
for user in resp.json()['users']:
print(user['firstName'], user['lastName'])body = { 'firstName': 'Ada', 'lastName': 'Lovelace' }
resp = requests.post('https://jsonexamples.com/users/add', json=body, timeout=5)
resp.raise_for_status()
print(resp.json())requests.put('https://jsonexamples.com/users/1', json={ 'firstName': 'Updated' }, timeout=5)
requests.delete('https://jsonexamples.com/users/1', timeout=5)session = requests.Session()
session.headers['Authorization'] = 'Bearer ' + token
me = session.get('https://jsonexamples.com/auth/me', timeout=5).json()try:
r = requests.get(url, timeout=5)
r.raise_for_status()
return r.json()
except requests.HTTPError as err:
print('HTTP', err.response.status_code, err.response.json())
raise
except requests.RequestException as err:
print('network error:', err)
raiseClick below to call /users/1 from your browser.
// click the button to populate this block{
"snippet": "import httpx\n\nasync with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:\n r = await client.get(\"https://jsonexamples.com/users/1\")\n print(r.json())"
}