Make HTML transformation dependencies optional

README.rst

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ and more:
 * DKIM signature
 * Render body from template
 * Flask extension and Django integration
-* Message body transformation methods
+* HTML transformation with CSS inlining (``pip install emails[html]``)
 * Load message from url or from file
 
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docs/install.rst

@@ -7,3 +7,11 @@ Install from pypi:
 .. code-block:: bash
 
     $ pip install emails
+
+This installs the lightweight core for building and sending email messages.
+
+To use HTML transformation features (CSS inlining, image embedding, loading from URL/file):
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ pip install emails[html]

emails/utils.py

@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@
 from email.header import Header, decode_header as decode_header_
 from email.utils import parseaddr, formatdate, escapesre, specialsre
 
-import requests
-
 from . import USER_AGENT
 from .exc import HTTPLoaderError
 
@@ -270,6 +268,7 @@ def __init__(self, _subtype='mixed', boundary=None, _subparts=None, encoding=Non
 
 
 def fetch_url(url, valid_http_codes=(200, ), requests_args=None):
+    import requests
     args = {}
     args.update(DEFAULT_REQUESTS_PARAMS)
     args.update(requests_args or {})

setup.py

@@ -127,7 +127,10 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
               'emails.packages.dkim'
              ],
     scripts=['scripts/make_rfc822.py'],
-    install_requires=['cssutils', 'lxml', 'chardet', 'python-dateutil', 'requests', 'premailer'],
+    install_requires=['python-dateutil'],
+    extras_require={
+        'html': ['cssutils', 'lxml', 'chardet', 'requests', 'premailer'],
+    },
     zip_safe=False,
     classifiers=(
         'Development Status :: 4 - Beta',