PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl
, the multiprotocol file
transfer library. Similarly to the urllib Python module,
PycURL can be used to fetch objects identified by a URL from a Python program.
Beyond simple fetches however PycURL exposes most of the functionality of
libcurl, including:
was benchmarked
_ to be several
times faster than requests_... _was benchmarked: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15461995/python-requests-vs-pycurl-performance .. _requests: http://python-requests.org/ .. _Multi: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-multi.html .. _share: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-share.html .. _Tornado: http://www.tornadoweb.org/
Download source and binary distributions from PyPI
_ or Bintray
_.
Binary wheels are now available for 32 and 64 bit Windows versions.
Please see the installation documentation
_ for installation instructions.
.. _PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycurl .. _Bintray: https://dl.bintray.com/pycurl/pycurl/ .. _the installation documentation: http://pycurl.io/docs/latest/install.html
Documentation for the most recent PycURL release is available on
PycURL website <http://pycurl.io/docs/latest/>
_.
For support questions please use curl-and-python mailing list
.
Mailing list archives
are available for your perusal as well.
Although not an official support venue, Stack Overflow
_ has been
popular with some PycURL users.
Bugs can be reported via GitHub
_. Please use GitHub only for bug
reports and direct questions to our mailing list instead.
.. _curl-and-python mailing list: http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-and-python .. _Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pycurl .. _Mailing list archives: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/list.cgi?list=curl-and-python .. _via GitHub: https://github.com/pycurl/pycurl/issues
PycURL is dual licensed under the LGPL and an MIT/X derivative license based on the libcurl license. The complete text of the licenses is available in COPYING-LGPL_ and COPYING-MIT_ files in the source distribution.
.. _libcurl: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/ .. _urllib: http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html .. _COPYING-LGPL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pycurl/pycurl/master/COPYING-LGPL .. _COPYING-MIT: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pycurl/pycurl/master/COPYING-MIT