Requests

2011-02-13 → 2026-09-21 · generated 2026-10-25 05:26:08 in 1 s · gitstats 2.12.0.post1.dev1, git version 2.55.0 · Badge for your README

What stands out

Next to the 106 other projects of GitStats Gallery: where Requests is in the top or bottom 15%.

6%
Against its busiest year
People made 6% as many commits to Requests in the last 12 months as in 2011, its busiest year (82 against 1,288).
The lowest of the 90 GitStats Gallery projects.
17%
Code still there
Of the 158,652 lines ever written into Requests's own source, 17% are still there; the rest were rewritten or removed.
4th lowest of 97; the median project: 37%.

How Requests compares, measure by measure →

Commits per year

Top contributors

Author	Commits	Share
☿ Kenneth Reitz	3,154	48.6%
Cory Benfield	610	9.4%
Ian Stapleton Cordasco	417	6.4%
Nate Prewitt	352	5.4%
dependabot bot	65	1.0%

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Latest releases

Tag	Date	Commits	Authors
v2.34.2	2026-05-14	2	Nate Prewitt
v2.34.1	2026-05-13	5	Nate Prewitt, Kaeun Kim
v2.34.0	2026-05-11	13	Nate Prewitt, Joshua Kothapalle +4
v2.34.0.dev1	2026-05-03	21	Nate Prewitt, dependabot bot +4
v2.33.1	2026-03-30	6	Nate Prewitt, Frank Dana

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How Requests compares with other Python open source projects →

How Requests ranks among Python open source projects by AI-assisted commits →

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The share of the last 12 months’ commits that name an AI coding assistant, a lower bound, updated every week with this report.

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The smallest workflow

Publishes the report to GitHub Pages on every push to main: turn on Pages for the gh-pages branch.

# .github/workflows/gitstats.yml
name: GitStats Report
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
permissions:
  contents: write
jobs:
  gitstats:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - uses: shenxianpeng/gitstats-action@v1
        with:
          deploy-to-pages: true