HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
47.12

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads11,498,433,385
Stars108,356
Forks11,465
Issue closure rate96%
Age11 years
Last releaseda month ago
got
9.72

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

Downloads6,644,721,258
Stars14,826
Forks972
Issue closure rate100%
Age12 years
Last released20 days ago
node-fetch
13.44

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

Downloads13,062,552,753
Stars8,857
Forks1,051
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
15.41

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,517,188,737
Stars25,614
Forks3,169
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
3.91

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

Downloads1,861,419,594
Stars7,306
Forks677
Issue closure rate84%
Age7 years
Last released2 months 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.

Downloads67,217,803
Stars741
Forks123
Issue closure rate96%
Age15 years
Last released4 months ago
wretch
1.31

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads15,080,042
Stars5,125
Forks105
Issue closure rate99%
Age8 years
Last released15 days ago

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