HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
47.61

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads10,568,278,701
Stars107,589
Forks11,194
Issue closure rate96%
Age11 years
Last releaseda month ago
got
9.91

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

Downloads6,301,126,220
Stars14,730
Forks968
Issue closure rate91%
Age11 years
Last released12 days ago
node-fetch
13.38

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

Downloads11,992,754,728
Stars8,845
Forks1,050
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
15.96

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,325,855,751
Stars25,630
Forks3,168
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
3.73

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

Downloads1,498,029,298
Stars7,123
Forks664
Issue closure rate85%
Age7 years
Last released2 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.

Downloads62,607,060
Stars740
Forks124
Issue closure rate97%
Age14 years
Last releaseda month ago
wretch
1.32

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads12,815,041
Stars5,017
Forks102
Issue closure rate99%
Age8 years
Last released10 months ago

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