Using the Requests python library in Google App Engine

Question

I\'m trying to use the awesome Requests library on Google App Engine. I found a patch for urllib3, which requests relies on, that is compatible with App Engine. https://gith

Answer 1

As mentioned, master branch of standalone urllib3 supposedly supports AppEngine now (I'll do a proper PyPI release once someone confirms this fact), but Requests does not yet support AppEngine since it makes assumption about various filesystem things to load configuration files which don't exist on AppEngine. Specifically the error you ran into has to do with loading the ~/.netrc configuration file.

See Issue #493.

For what it's worth, the equivalent in urllib3 would be:

import urllib3
http = urllib3.PoolManager()
response = http.request('GET', 'someurl')

Update: urllib3 v1.3 was released yesterday which includes AppEngine support.