Related Projects¶

If requests-cache isn’t quite what you need, you can help make it better! See the Contributing Guide for details.

For other use cases, you can check out these other python projects related to caching:

Client-side HTTP caching¶

aiohttp-client-cache: An async HTTP cache for aiohttp, based on requests-cache
CacheControl: An HTTP cache that ports features from httplib2 for usage with requests
Hishel: A sync+async HTTP cache for httpx

aiohttp-cache: A server-side async HTTP cache for the aiohttp web server
django cache: Built-in server-side caching for Django applications
fastapi-cache: A server-side async HTTP cache for applications built with FastAPI
flask-caching: A server-side HTTP cache for applications built with Flask
starlette-caches: HTTP caching middleware for Starlette/FastAPI, inspired by Django’s cache framework

aiocache: General-purpose async cache backends
cachier: A general-purpose cache with file-based and MongoDB backends
cachetools: Memoizing collections and decorators with LRU, TTL, FIFO, and other eviction strategies
diskcache: A general-purpose file-based cache built on SQLite
dogpile.cache: A caching frontend with concurrency locking and backends for Redis, Memcached, and databases

requests-mock: A requests transport adapter that mocks HTTP responses
responses: A utility for mocking out the requests library
vcrpy: Records responses to local files and plays them back for tests; inspired by Ruby’s VCR. Works at the httplib level and is compatible with multiple HTTP libraries.
betamax: Records responses to local files and plays them back for tests; inspired by Ruby’s VCR. Made specifically for requests.
HTTPretty: HTTP Client mocking tool that provides a full fake TCP socket module; inspired by Ruby’s FakeWeb.
aioresponses: A helper to mock web requests in aiohttp, inspired by responses
aresponses: An asyncio testing server for mocking external services
pook: HTTP traffic mocking with support for requests, aiohttp, and httpx