urllib3
HTTP client with thread-safe connection pooling, file uploads and advanced features.
Used in agent projects
193
1.5% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in http clients and networking
#8 of 29
by use in those projects
Downloads
338M
PyPI, last 7 days, urllib3
GitHub stars
4,071
last push Oct 8, 2026
How urllib3 is used
urllib3 is a dependency in 193 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.5%), #8 of 29 in http clients and networking. The most used alternative there is Axios. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (95.3%), charset-normalizer (79.8%), AnyIO (71.5%).
Often used with urllib3
| Requests | 95.3% of urllib3 projects · 17.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| charset-normalizer | 79.8% of urllib3 projects · 64.1× more than average |
| AnyIO | 71.5% of urllib3 projects · 48.8× more than average |
| websockets | 68.4% of urllib3 projects · 30.4× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 60.6% of urllib3 projects · 9.3× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 1.7% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 1.5% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 2.2% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list urllib3 as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install urllib3 |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (186), Next.js (6), Other (1) |
| Example projects | solana-developers/solana-cookbook, henrytirla/Solana-Trading-Bot, twjackysu/TWSEMCPServer, lorenzourera/solana-auto-sell-bot, pipedude/evi-run |
Alternatives to urllib3
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axios npm Promise-based HTTP client for browser and Node.js with interceptors. |
1,264 (10.0%) | 115M | 109K | MIT |
| Requests pypi Elegant Python HTTP library for making web requests. |
675 (5.3%) | 309M | 54.6K | Apache-2.0 |
| aiohttp pypi Async HTTP client/server framework for Python with WebSocket support. |
295 (2.3%) | 117M | 16.6K | — |
| ws npm Simple, fast WebSocket client and server for Node.js with full RFC support. |
287 (2.3%) | 283M | 22.8K | MIT |
| websockets pypi WebSocket implementation for Python with RFC 6455 and 7692 compliance. |
286 (2.3%) | 109M | 5,732 | — |
| httpx pypi Modern Python HTTP client with async support, replacing the standard requests library. |
266 (2.1%) | 16M | 15.6K | BSD-3-Clause |
| node-fetch npm Bring the Fetch API to Node.js for making HTTP requests. |
219 (1.7%) | 207M | 8,852 | MIT |
| AnyIO pypi Async I/O framework supporting both asyncio and Trio with high-level networking abstractions. |
186 (1.5%) | 206M | 2,555 | — |