requests_library.txt

# Providing auth in Request
requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=(username, pwd))

## Downloading a file
# Excellent article on: 
https://www.codementor.io/@aviaryan/downloading-files-from-urls-in-python-77q3bs0un

import requests
resp = requests.get("http://www.example.com", allow_redirects=True)
## Reading as text
resp.text
## Read as bytes
resp.content
## Response code
resp.status_code
## Accessing url of query
print(response.request.url)
##########################################
# Uploading a file:
import requests

username='username'
password='root'

url="http://hh.fire-test.sdo.ebi.ac.uk/fire/objects"

# 'test.txt' is the file to be uploaded
files = {'file' : open('test.txt', 'rb')}

# creating headers
header = {
    "x-fire-path" : "test-dir/test-file",
    "x-fire-size" : "14",
    "x-fire-md5" : "6c9c5b1703ab5994eab0a38f96254158"
}

res=requests.post(url, auth=(username, password), files = files, headers=header)

print(res.status_code)
print(res.text)