# Hishel

> BSD-3 elegant HTTP caching for Python

**Category:** Python  
**Pricing:** open-source  
**URL:** https://hishel.com  
**GitHub:** https://github.com/karpetrosyan/hishel  
**Added:** 2026-09-18

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## The Hook

Hishel is RFC-minded HTTP caching for Python that stays transport-agnostic and streaming-friendly.

## What's Good

BSD-3-Clause (karpetrosyan/hishel). Sans-IO caching state machine with integrations for HTTPX, Requests, FastAPI, and more; designed to avoid buffering entire responses. Docs at hishel.com; `pip install hishel`. ★~411 — the caching library you reach for before reinventing Cache-Control.

## The Catch

Vs requests-cache / HTTPX built-ins: Hishel is the dedicated RFC caching layer with streaming-first design, not a framework and not a CDN. You still choose storage backends and correctness policy for authenticated or personalized responses.

## Verdict

BSD-3 Python HTTP cache. Import when clients need real Cache-Control behavior without hand-rolled middleware.