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It wasn't at first, actually. It was originally a wrapper around urllib2 — Andrey and I collabed early on in both project's histories to make them what they are today.

requests does much more on top of urllib3 than this new requests-html does on top of requests + pyquery.

It greatly simplifies the most common patterns in doing HTTP requests; things like authentication, passing headers, retry logic, etc.

Which is written in python, so better give credit for that.

Wow and now python is in C so line up your credit books, we are in for a long night tonight.

Thoughts & prays for all contributors

...I know you're trolling, but I seriously wonder where it would stop if we were to go down all that way.

Gotta give credit to whichever cavemen/cavewomen discovered fire, and all the civilizations that invented the wheel, Ben Franklin for harnessing the power of electricity, and then maybe Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for inventing Unix.

To quote Carl Sagan, "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."