excon
Usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby (by excon)
Typhoeus
Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests. (by typhoeus)
| excon | Typhoeus | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 2 | |
| 1,152 | 4,060 | |
| 0.0% | 0.0% | |
| 8.0 | 0.0 | |
| 11 days ago | 6 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
excon
Posts with mentions or reviews of excon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning excon yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Typhoeus
Posts with mentions or reviews of Typhoeus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-05.
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Best Ruby HTTP Clients in 2023
In fact, because the metric is clearly "number of stars", it suggests you two libraries which are either not maintained in almost 3 years, or that haven't had a release in 3 years and a commit in 10 months, despite both of them having a buttload of open issues.
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The Best Ruby HTTP clients for 2021
Have you had a play with typhoeus by any chance? It's a wrapper over libcurl, so you get OS threads for free - which is kind of nice.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing excon and Typhoeus you can also consider the following projects:
Faraday - Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.
httparty - :tada: Makes http fun again!
RESTClient - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.
Http Client - 'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby.
Patron - Ruby HTTP client based on libcurl
HTTP - HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts
Savon - Heavy metal SOAP client