HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
47.53

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads10,625,272,865
Stars107,630
Forks11,200
Issue closure rate96%
Age11 years
Last released3 days ago
got
9.89

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

Downloads6,322,126,479
Stars14,733
Forks968
Issue closure rate92%
Age11 years
Last released3 hours ago
node-fetch
13.38

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

Downloads12,055,475,851
Stars8,846
Forks1,050
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
15.92

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,336,928,047
Stars25,632
Forks3,168
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
3.74

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

Downloads1,519,250,806
Stars7,141
Forks665
Issue closure rate85%
Age7 years
Last released8 days 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.

Downloads62,887,056
Stars742
Forks124
Issue closure rate97%
Age14 years
Last releaseda month ago
wretch
1.32

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads12,944,798
Stars5,020
Forks102
Issue closure rate99%
Age8 years
Last releaseda year ago

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