HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
46.86

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads11,737,825,592
Stars108,464
Forks11,476
Issue closure rate96%
Age11 years
Last released2 months ago
got
9.66

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

Downloads6,724,722,581
Stars14,849
Forks972
Issue closure rate100%
Age12 years
Last released11 days ago
node-fetch
13.45

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

Downloads13,340,365,971
Stars8,860
Forks1,048
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released2 years ago
request
Deprecated
15.26

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,558,732,810
Stars25,612
Forks3,169
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
3.97

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

Downloads1,966,831,727
Stars7,360
Forks688
Issue closure rate84%
Age7 years
Last released4 days 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.

Downloads68,633,628
Stars741
Forks124
Issue closure rate96%
Age15 years
Last releaseda month ago
wretch
1.30

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads15,698,501
Stars5,136
Forks105
Issue closure rate100%
Age8 years
Last releaseda month ago

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