HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
48.72

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads9,995,111,510
Stars107,200
Forks11,164
Issue closure rate88%
Age11 years
Last releaseda month ago
got
10.12

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

Downloads6,086,321,455
Stars14,669
Forks965
Issue closure rate91%
Age11 years
Last released3 months ago
node-fetch
13.42

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

Downloads11,351,844,970
Stars8,842
Forks1,048
Issue closure rate80%
Age10 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
16.47

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,192,287,480
Stars25,643
Forks3,162
Issue closure rate95%
Age14 years
Last released5 years ago
undici
3.63

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

Downloads1,294,507,711
Stars6,929
Forks648
Issue closure rate84%
Age7 years
Last released15 days 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.

Downloads60,352,993
Stars736
Forks125
Issue closure rate97%
Age14 years
Last released4 days ago
wretch
1.36

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads11,429,307
Stars4,999
Forks102
Issue closure rate99%
Age8 years
Last released8 months ago

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