HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
46.37

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads13,189,320,923
Stars109,036
Forks11,659
Issue closure rate97%
Age12 years
Last released9 days ago
got
9.43

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

Downloads7,204,211,100
Stars14,899
Forks985
Issue closure rate100%
Age12 years
Last released9 days ago
node-fetch
13.71

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

Downloads15,156,327,541
Stars8,858
Forks1,051
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released3 years ago
request
Deprecated
14.62

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,794,657,912
Stars25,566
Forks3,159
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
4.56

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

Downloads2,923,578,969
Stars7,542
Forks758
Issue closure rate86%
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.

Downloads75,510,191
Stars741
Forks124
Issue closure rate98%
Age15 years
Last released5 months ago
wretch
1.28

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads19,531,646
Stars5,167
Forks108
Issue closure rate100%
Age9 years
Last released2 months ago

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