The best Python Requests
alternatives.

Five ways to fetch more than static HTML.

1. 01

   Zenrows

   Our pick

   Live extraction from any URL, including protected and dynamic pages, with fetch, extract (beta), and browser sessions as one toolkit. No HTTP client to maintain.

   Best for · production web data, end to end

2. 02

   httpx

   A modern async HTTP client for Python that supports HTTP/2 and async/await. A faster, more capable drop-in for Requests.

   Best for · async Python HTTP with HTTP/2 support

3. 03

   Scrapy

   An open-source Python crawling framework that handles fetching and parsing at scale with built-in middleware and pipelines.

   Best for · large-scale Python crawling projects

4. 04

   Playwright

   A cross-browser automation library for Python, Node.js, Java, and .NET. Handles JS-rendered pages that Requests cannot.

   Best for · JS-heavy pages with a headless browser

5. 05

   Beautiful Soup

   A Python library for parsing HTML and XML. Pair it with Requests or httpx; alone it does not fetch.

   Best for · parsing static HTML in Python