3.17. Link Headers

Many HTTP APIs feature Link headers. They make APIs more self describing and discoverable.

GitHub uses these for pagination in their API, for example:

>>> url = 'https://api.github.com/users/kennethreitz/repos?page=1&per_page=10'
>>> r = requests.head(url=url)
>>> r.headers['link']
'<https://api.github.com/users/kennethreitz/repos?page=2&per_page=10>; rel="next", <https://api.github.com/users/kennethreitz/repos?page=6&per_page=10>; rel="last"'

Requests will automatically parse these link headers and make them easily consumable:

>>> r.links["next"]
{'url': 'https://api.github.com/users/kennethreitz/repos?page=2&per_page=10', 'rel': 'next'}

>>> r.links["last"]
{'url': 'https://api.github.com/users/kennethreitz/repos?page=7&per_page=10', 'rel': 'last'}