Installation

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or later
• No required system dependencies

HyperHTTP is pure-Python. Optional C extensions (uvloop, orjson, brotli, zstandard) are picked up automatically at import time if they are installed.

Install from PyPI

pip install hyperhttp

Optional extras

Extra	Adds	When to use
speed	uvloop, orjson, h11, brotli, zstandard	Production / benchmarking — recommended.
bench	aiohttp, httpx[http2], uvloop	Running the built-in benchmark script.
test	pytest, pytest-asyncio, pytest-cov, aiohttp, httpx[http2], trustme, hypercorn, brotli	Running the test suite.
dev	black, isort, mypy, ruff	Local development.
doc	mkdocs, mkdocs-material, mkdocstrings	Building these docs.

# Recommended for production deployments
pip install 'hyperhttp[speed]'

When uvloop is available, call it once at program start:

import hyperhttp
hyperhttp.install_uvloop()  # no-op if uvloop isn't installed

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/lmousom/hyperhttp.git
cd hyperhttp
pip install -e '.[speed,test]'

Verify the installation

import hyperhttp
print(hyperhttp.__version__)
print("uvloop:", hyperhttp.HAS_UVLOOP)
print("orjson:", hyperhttp.HAS_ORJSON)
print("brotli:", hyperhttp.HAS_BROTLI)
print("zstd:",   hyperhttp.HAS_ZSTANDARD)