HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
47.86

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads10,382,512,780
Stars107,440
Forks11,190
Issue closure rate95%
Age11 years
Last released18 days ago
got
9.97

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

Downloads6,232,004,600
Stars14,713
Forks969
Issue closure rate91%
Age11 years
Last released5 months ago
node-fetch
13.38

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

Downloads11,782,569,426
Stars8,846
Forks1,051
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
16.10

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,287,568,804
Stars25,630
Forks3,165
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
3.68

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

Downloads1,428,796,945
Stars7,021
Forks662
Issue closure rate84%
Age7 years
Last released5 days ago
urllib
0.38

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

Downloads61,752,048
Stars740
Forks124
Issue closure rate97%
Age14 years
Last released10 days ago
wretch
1.33

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads12,376,579
Stars5,014
Forks102
Issue closure rate99%
Age8 years
Last released10 months ago

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