# Installation of Requests

This part of the documentation covers the installation of Requests. The first step to using any software package is getting it properly installed.

## $ python -m pip install requests

To install Requests, simply run this simple command in your terminal of choice:

    $ python -m pip install requests

## Get the Source Code

Requests is actively developed on GitHub, where the code is always available.

You can either clone the public repository:

    $ git clone https://github.com/psf/requests.git

Or, download the tarball:

    $ curl -OL https://github.com/psf/requests/tarball/main
    # optionally, zipball is also available (for Windows users).

Once you have a copy of the source, you can embed it in your own Python package, or install it into your site-packages easily:

    $ cd requests
    $ python -m pip install .