RestClient.Net VS RestSharp

Compare RestClient.Net vs RestSharp and see what are their differences.

RestClient.Net

.NET REST Client Framework for all platforms (by MelbourneDeveloper)

RestSharp

Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET (by restsharp)
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RestClient.Net RestSharp
11 13
360 9,419
- 0.6%
5.2 6.0
12 months ago 10 days ago
C# C#
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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RestClient.Net

Posts with mentions or reviews of RestClient.Net. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-01.
  • What's the deal with HttpClient?
    3 projects | /r/dotnet | 1 Oct 2021
  • RestClient.Net 5.0.x Beta Released
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 24 Apr 2021
    RestClient .Net is completely immutable and therefore much more thread-safe. It also works well with standard Microsoft dependency injection, and it's easy to mock. Have a look at the abstraction. If you use this, it's a one-step process for mocking HTTP calls.
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 24 Apr 2021
    4 projects | /r/dotnetcore | 24 Apr 2021
    https://github.com/MelbourneDeveloper/RestClient.Net/blob/e7edf5c1b40305732af3b0bd10c548996889ba97/src/RestClient.Net.Abstractions/IClient.cs#L9
    4 projects | /r/dotnetcore | 24 Apr 2021

RestSharp

Posts with mentions or reviews of RestSharp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-20.
  • Building a Gateway to Netflix API: A Developer's Guide
    2 projects | dev.to | 20 Nov 2023
    RestSharp
  • ASP.NET Core - how to properly make a GET request?
    4 projects | /r/dotnet | 6 Jan 2023
    Use RestSharp to create a client library. It requires you to write more code, but it's still a lot less boilerplate than using HttpClient directly.
  • static HttpClient inside a using statement?
    2 projects | /r/csharp | 11 Nov 2022
  • Benchmarks Clients Http
    4 projects | dev.to | 20 Jul 2022
    RestSharp:
  • Send postcards with C# and Flurl
    3 projects | dev.to | 22 Nov 2021
    On line 16, we append the endpoint that we are going to connect to. In this example, we hit the “/addresses” endpoint. On line 17, we authenticate to Lob using Basic Authentication. Our Lob API key is placed where the username would be and we leave the password empty. Flurl sets the basic-auth headers using the WithBasicAuth method. For those using RestSharp it looks like this.
  • RestClient.Net 5.0.x Beta Released
    4 projects | /r/dotnetcore | 24 Apr 2021
  • Transitioning from WCF
    2 projects | /r/csharp | 1 Mar 2021
    This is going to be a pain because adding a service reference handles a lot of the "plumbing" in terms of making your API calls. I suggest you use something like RestSharp to make things easier to make the calls themselves, and potentially look at some code generation for generating similar proxy classes to what service references did. In fact, it should just be partials behind the scene, so maybe making a copy and seeing if you can rip out the WCF guts and replacing them with REST ones might be worth exploring.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing RestClient.Net and RestSharp you can also consider the following projects:

Flurl.Http - Fluent URL builder and testable HTTP client for .NET

Refit - The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface.

RestEase - Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library for .NET Standard 1.1 and .NET Framework 4.5 and higher, which is simple and customisable. Inspired by Refit

Ocelot - .NET API Gateway

Simple.OData.Client

EasyHttp - Http Library for C#

Tiny.RestClient - Simpliest Fluent REST client for .NET

WebApiClient - An open source project based on the HttpClient. You only need to define the c# interface and modify the related features to invoke the client library of the remote http interface asynchronously.

Sandwych.JsonRpc - Sandwych.JsonRpc: A JSON-RPC Client For .NET

FastEndpoints - A light-weight REST API development framework for ASP.Net 6 and newer. [Moved to: https://github.com/FastEndpoints/Library]

mockhttp - Testing layer for Microsoft's HttpClient library. Create canned responses using a fluent API.

Lib.Net.Http.WebPush - Lib.Net.Http.WebPush is a library which provides a Web Push Protocol based client for Push Service.