HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
47.21

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads11,233,887,783
Stars108,228
Forks11,411
Issue closure rate96%
Age11 years
Last released14 days ago
got
9.76

Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js

Downloads6,547,737,021
Stars14,795
Forks969
Issue closure rate100%
Age12 years
Last released4 days ago
node-fetch
13.41

A light-weight module that brings Fetch API to node.js

Downloads12,754,987,037
Stars8,844
Forks1,051
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
15.53

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,459,283,702
Stars25,621
Forks3,166
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
3.86

An HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js

Downloads1,754,615,755
Stars7,271
Forks674
Issue closure rate84%
Age7 years
Last releaseda month ago
urllib
0.37

Help in opening URLs (mostly HTTP) in a complex world — basic and digest authentication, redirections, timeout and more. Base undici API.

Downloads65,919,525
Stars741
Forks124
Issue closure rate97%
Age15 years
Last released3 months ago
wretch
1.31

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads14,467,198
Stars5,108
Forks104
Issue closure rate100%
Age8 years
Last released8 days ago

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