HTTP Clients

Send network requests and fetch data from external APIs
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axios
46.37

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Downloads13,052,200,144
Stars109,038
Forks11,645
Issue closure rate97%
Age12 years
Last released2 days ago
got
9.44

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

Downloads7,158,197,242
Stars14,895
Forks983
Issue closure rate100%
Age12 years
Last released6 hours ago
node-fetch
13.67

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

Downloads14,972,925,912
Stars8,857
Forks1,054
Issue closure rate80%
Age11 years
Last released3 years ago
request
Deprecated
14.67

Simplified HTTP request client.

Downloads7,773,897,596
Stars25,571
Forks3,159
Issue closure rate95%
Age15 years
Last released6 years ago
undici
4.48

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

Downloads2,792,461,641
Stars7,520
Forks756
Issue closure rate86%
Age8 years
Last released7 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.

Downloads74,812,848
Stars741
Forks124
Issue closure rate98%
Age15 years
Last released4 months ago
wretch
1.28

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax.

Downloads19,207,038
Stars5,164
Forks107
Issue closure rate100%
Age9 years
Last releaseda month ago

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