PycURL – A Python Interface To The cURL library

The pycurl package is a Python interface to libcurl. pycurl has been successfully built and tested with Python versions from 2.4 to 2.7 and 3.1 to 3.4.

libcurl is a client-side URL transfer library supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP. libcurl also supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploads, proxies, cookies, basic authentication, file transfer resume of FTP sessions, HTTP proxy tunneling and more.

All the functionality provided by libcurl can used through the pycurl interface. The following subsections describe how to use the pycurl interface, and assume familiarity with how libcurl works. For information on how libcurl works, please consult the curl library C API.

Contents:

• Release Notes
  • PycURL 7.19.5.1 - 2015-01-06
  • PycURL 7.19.5 - 2014-07-12
  • PycURL 7.19.3.1 - 2014-02-05
  • PycURL 7.19.3 - 2014-01-09
• PycURL Installation
  • Distutils
  • easy_install / pip
  • Windows
  • Git Checkout
• PycURL Quick Start
  • Retrieving A Network Resource
  • Examining Response Headers
  • Writing To A File
  • Following Redirects
  • Setting Options
  • Examining Response
  • Sending Form Data
• pycurl Module Functionality
• Curl Object
• CurlMulti Object
• CurlShare Object
• Callbacks
  • Example: Callbacks for document header and body
  • Example: Download/upload progress callback
  • Example: Debug callbacks
  • Other examples
• curl Module Functionality
  • High Level Curl Object
• String And Unicode Handling
  • Setting Options - Python 2.x
  • Setting Options - Python 3.x
  • Writing To Files
  • Writing To StringIO/BytesIO
  • Header Functions
  • Read Functions
  • How PycURL Handles Unicode Strings
  • Figuring Out Correct Encoding
  • Legacy PycURL Versions
• File Handling

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page