HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
47.17

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads11,307,644,420
Stars108,268
Forks11,426
Issue closure rate96%
Age11 years
Last released21 days ago
got
9.74

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

Downloads6,574,267,508
Stars14,799
Forks970
Issue closure rate100%
Age12 years
Last released3 days ago
node-fetch
13.42

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

Downloads12,839,846,544
Stars8,849
Forks1,052
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
15.50

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,474,431,973
Stars25,618
Forks3,168
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
3.87

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

Downloads1,784,522,194
Stars7,282
Forks675
Issue closure rate84%
Age7 years
Last released2 months 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.

Downloads66,277,028
Stars741
Forks124
Issue closure rate97%
Age15 years
Last released3 months ago
wretch
1.31

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads14,637,389
Stars5,119
Forks104
Issue closure rate100%
Age8 years
Last released15 days ago

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