HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
46.52

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads12,333,412,533
Stars108,576
Forks11,538
Issue closure rate96%
Age12 years
Last released2 days ago
got
9.54

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

Downloads6,922,413,373
Stars14,872
Forks977
Issue closure rate100%
Age12 years
Last released2 months ago
node-fetch
13.50

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

Downloads14,048,142,403
Stars8,858
Forks1,046
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released3 years ago
request
Deprecated
14.96

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,654,989,910
Stars25,605
Forks3,167
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
4.16

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

Downloads2,288,087,438
Stars7,441
Forks708
Issue closure rate84%
Age8 years
Last released16 days ago
urllib
0.36

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

Downloads71,459,102
Stars741
Forks125
Issue closure rate96%
Age15 years
Last released3 months ago
wretch
1.29

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads17,292,737
Stars5,150
Forks106
Issue closure rate100%
Age8 years
Last released3 months ago

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