HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
49.12

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads9,739,233,505
Stars107,050
Forks11,152
Issue closure rate88%
Age11 years
Last released2 days ago
got
10.21

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

Downloads5,980,276,509
Stars14,630
Forks964
Issue closure rate91%
Age11 years
Last released3 months ago
node-fetch
13.47

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

Downloads11,065,456,744
Stars8,842
Forks1,046
Issue closure rate80%
Age10 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
16.69

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,117,406,603
Stars25,655
Forks3,162
Issue closure rate95%
Age14 years
Last released5 years ago
undici
3.59

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

Downloads1,214,897,410
Stars6,871
Forks641
Issue closure rate84%
Age7 years
Last releaseda month ago
urllib
0.39

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

Downloads59,347,390
Stars736
Forks125
Issue closure rate97%
Age14 years
Last released4 months ago
wretch
1.37

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads10,828,697
Stars4,977
Forks101
Issue closure rate99%
Age8 years
Last released8 months ago

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