HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
47.27

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads11,086,869,101
Stars108,079
Forks11,383
Issue closure rate96%
Age11 years
Last released7 days ago
got
9.79

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

Downloads6,497,281,993
Stars14,785
Forks971
Issue closure rate100%
Age12 years
Last released2 days ago
node-fetch
13.40

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

Downloads12,592,210,756
Stars8,843
Forks1,051
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
15.61

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,432,242,948
Stars25,621
Forks3,164
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
3.83

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

Downloads1,696,932,697
Stars7,240
Forks675
Issue closure rate85%
Age7 years
Last releaseda month 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.

Downloads65,174,566
Stars741
Forks124
Issue closure rate97%
Age14 years
Last released3 months ago
wretch
1.32

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads14,134,690
Stars5,104
Forks103
Issue closure rate100%
Age8 years
Last released11 days ago

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