WHAT IT DOES

What does it do?

Hishel is a transport-independent HTTP caching library for Python. It provides an RFC-compliant state machine written in pure Python and does not hold entire responses in memory. It also includes ready-to-use integrations for HTTPX, HTTPX2, Requests, FastAPI, and others.

KEY FEATURES

Key features

• RFC-compliant cache state machine written in pure Python
• Caching independent of a specific transport layer
• Streaming processing that avoids buffering entire responses in memory
• HTTPX and HTTPX2 integrations
• Requests and FastAPI integrations