From cf0ec4d920c654da45834a6aea53701affa37f6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Your Actual Name <your-actual-email@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:46:04 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] docs: completely rewrite README with comprehensive examples
 and troubleshooting guide

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 # Requests
 
-**Requests** is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
+**Requests** is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library for Python, making HTTP requests incredibly straightforward.
 
 ```python
 >>> import requests
@@ -17,62 +17,283 @@
 {'authenticated': True, ...}
 ```
 
-Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your `PUT` & `POST` data — but nowadays, just use the `json` method!
+---
+
+## 🚀 Quick Start
+
+### Installation
+Requests is available on PyPI and can be installed via pip:
+
+```bash
+pip install requests
+```
+
+Supported Python versions: 3.9+
+
+### Verify Installation
+
+```python
+import requests
+print(f"Requests version: {requests.__version__}")
+```
+
+---
+
+## 💡 Common Usage Examples
 
-Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages today, pulling in around `30M downloads / week`— according to GitHub, Requests is currently [depended upon](https://github.com/psf/requests/network/dependents?package_id=UGFja2FnZS01NzA4OTExNg%3D%3D) by `1,000,000+` repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.
+### Basic GET Request
 
-[![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/requests/month)](https://pepy.tech/project/requests)
-[![Supported Versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/requests.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/requests)
-[![Contributors](https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/psf/requests.svg)](https://github.com/psf/requests/graphs/contributors)
+```python
+import requests
+
+# Simple GET request
+response = requests.get('https://api.github.com')
+print(f"Status Code: {response.status_code}")
+print(f"Headers: {response.headers['content-type']}")
 
-## Installing Requests and Supported Versions
+# Access JSON data
+data = response.json()
+print(f"GitHub API Rate Limit: {data['resources']['core']['limit']}")
+```
 
-Requests is available on PyPI:
+### POST Request with JSON Data
 
-```console
-$ python -m pip install requests
+```python
+import requests
+
+# POST with JSON data
+payload = {'name': 'John', 'email': 'john@example.com'}
+response = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', json=payload)
+
+print(f"Status: {response.status_code}")
+print(f"Response: {response.json()}")
 ```
 
-Requests officially supports Python 3.9+.
+### Handling Authentication
 
-## Supported Features & Best–Practices
+```python
+import requests
+from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
 
-Requests is ready for the demands of building robust and reliable HTTP–speaking applications, for the needs of today.
+# Basic Authentication
+response = requests.get(
+    'https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass',
+    auth=HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'pass')
+)
 
-- Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling
-- International Domains and URLs
-- Sessions with Cookie Persistence
-- Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification
-- Basic & Digest Authentication
-- Familiar `dict`–like Cookies
-- Automatic Content Decompression and Decoding
-- Multi-part File Uploads
-- SOCKS Proxy Support
-- Connection Timeouts
-- Streaming Downloads
-- Automatic honoring of `.netrc`
-- Chunked HTTP Requests
+# Or simpler:
+response = requests.get(
+    'https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass',
+    auth=('user', 'pass')
+)
+```
+
+### Working with Query Parameters
+
+```python
+import requests
 
-## API Reference and User Guide available on [Read the Docs](https://requests.readthedocs.io)
+# Automatic query parameter handling
+params = {'search': 'python', 'page': 1, 'limit': 10}
+response = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/get', params=params)
 
-[![Read the Docs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/requests/main/ext/ss.png)](https://requests.readthedocs.io)
+print(f"URL: {response.url}")
+print(f"Params: {response.json()['args']}")
+```
 
-## Cloning the repository
+---
 
-When cloning the Requests repository, you may need to add the `-c
-fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore` flag to avoid an error about a bad commit timestamp (see
-[this issue](https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2690) for more background):
+## 🛠️ Advanced Features
+
+### Session Management
+
+```python
+import requests
+
+# Use sessions for connection pooling and cookie persistence
+with requests.Session() as session:
+    session.headers.update({'User-Agent': 'MyApp/1.0'})
+    
+    # All requests in this session share cookies and connections
+    response1 = session.get('https://httpbin.org/cookies/set/sessioncookie/123456789')
+    response2 = session.get('https://httpbin.org/cookies')
+    
+    print(f"Cookies: {response2.json()}")
+```
+
+### File Upload
+
+```python
+import requests
+
+# Upload a file
+files = {'file': open('report.pdf', 'rb')}
+response = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', files=files)
+
+# Upload with additional data
+files = {'file': ('report.pdf', open('report.pdf', 'rb'), 'application/pdf')}
+data = {'description': 'Quarterly report'}
+response = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', files=files, data=data)
+```
+
+### Streaming Large Responses
+
+```python
+import requests
+
+# Stream large responses to avoid loading everything into memory
+response = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/stream/100', stream=True)
+
+for line in response.iter_lines():
+    if line:
+        print(f"Received: {line.decode('utf-8')}")
+```
+
+---
+
+## 🐛 Troubleshooting Common Issues
+
+### Handling Errors Gracefully
+
+```python
+import requests
+from requests.exceptions import RequestException
+
+try:
+    response = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/status/404', timeout=5)
+    response.raise_for_status()  # Raises an HTTPError for bad responses
+except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as http_err:
+    print(f'HTTP error occurred: {http_err}')
+except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError as conn_err:
+    print(f'Connection error occurred: {conn_err}')
+except requests.exceptions.Timeout as timeout_err:
+    print(f'Timeout error occurred: {timeout_err}')
+except requests.exceptions.RequestException as req_err:
+    print(f'An error occurred: {req_err}')
+```
 
-```shell
+### SSL Certificate Verification
+
+```python
+import requests
+
+# For self-signed certificates (development only)
+response = requests.get('https://self-signed-example.com', verify=False)
+
+# Or specify a custom CA bundle
+response = requests.get('https://example.com', verify='/path/to/certfile.pem')
+```
+
+### Setting Timeouts
+
+```python
+import requests
+
+# Always set timeouts to avoid hanging requests
+try:
+    response = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/delay/10', timeout=3.5)
+except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
+    print("Request timed out!")
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📊 Supported Features
+
+Requests is ready for building robust HTTP applications with:
+
+✅ Keep-Alive & Connection Pooling - Efficient connection reuse  
+✅ International Domains and URLs - Full Unicode support  
+✅ Sessions with Cookie Persistence - Maintain state across requests  
+✅ Browser-style TLS/SSL Verification - Secure by default  
+✅ Basic & Digest Authentication - Multiple auth methods  
+✅ Automatic Content Decompression - gzip, deflate compression  
+✅ Streaming Downloads - Handle large responses efficiently  
+✅ SOCKS Proxy Support - Complete proxy support  
+✅ Connection Timeouts - Prevent hanging requests  
+✅ Chunked HTTP Requests - Efficient large uploads  
+
+---
+
+## 🔧 Installation Options
+
+### Using conda
+
+```bash
+conda install -c anaconda requests
+```
+
+### From Source
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/psf/requests.git
+cd requests
+pip install -e .
+```
+
+### Development Installation
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/psf/requests.git
+cd requests
+pip install -e ".[socks]"  # With optional SOCKS support
+pip install -r requirements-dev.txt  # Development dependencies
+```
+
+---
+
+## 📚 Documentation
+
+Complete API reference and user guide available on [Read the Docs](https://requests.readthedocs.io).
+
+![Requests Example](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/requests/main/ext/ss.png)
+
+---
+
+## 🤝 Contributing
+
+We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.
+
+### Cloning the Repository
+
+```bash
 git clone -c fetch.fsck.badTimezone=ignore https://github.com/psf/requests.git
 ```
 
-You can also apply this setting to your global Git config:
+Or set globally:
 
-```shell
+```bash
 git config --global fetch.fsck.badTimezone ignore
 ```
 
 ---
 
-[![Kenneth Reitz](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/requests/main/ext/kr.png)](https://kennethreitz.org) [![Python Software Foundation](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/requests/main/ext/psf.png)](https://www.python.org/psf)
+## 📈 Project Stats
+
+![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/requests/month)
+![Python Versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/requests.svg)
+![Contributors](https://img.shields.io/github/contributors/psf/requests.svg)
+
+Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages with over **30 million downloads per week** and trusted by **1,000,000+ repositories**.
+
+![PSF](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/psf/requests/main/ext/psf.png)
+
+---
+
+## 🛠️ EXACT STEPS TO APPLY
+
+1. Open `README.md`
+2. Select ALL (Ctrl+A) and DELETE everything
+3. COPY this improved version and PASTE it into the file
+4. SAVE (Ctrl+S)
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 THEN COMMIT & PUSH
+
+```bash
+git checkout -b docs/improve-readme-examples
+git add README.md
+git commit -m "docs: completely rewrite README with comprehensive examples and troubleshooting guide"
+git push origin docs/improve-readme-examples
+```