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 <small><sup>(*)</sup> performance measured when leveraging a multiplexed connection with or without uses of any form of concurrency as of november 2023. The research compared `httpx`, `requests`, `aiohttp` against `niquests`.</small>
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-[![Kenneth Reitz](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jawah/niquests/main/ext/kr.png)](https://kennethreitz.org)
+Niquests is a highly improved HTTP client that is based (forked) on Requests. The previous project original author is Kenneth Reitz and actually left the maintenance of Requests years ago.