hackney VS httpoison

Compare hackney vs httpoison and see what are their differences.

hackney

simple HTTP client in Erlang (by benoitc)

httpoison

Yet Another HTTP client for Elixir powered by hackney (by edgurgel)
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hackney httpoison
3 4
1,313 2,213
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6.8 6.6
about 2 months ago 5 months ago
Erlang Elixir
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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hackney

Posts with mentions or reviews of hackney. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-26.

httpoison

Posts with mentions or reviews of httpoison. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-02.
  • Phoenix SaaS starter kit?
    1 project | /r/elixir | 1 Aug 2022
    You can also use https://github.com/edgurgel/httpoison to write your own API integrations. If there's already a package out there, may as well use it. If not, Elixir makes it easy enough to knock out in an hour or two (unless the API itself is a pain to work with, but that would apply to any language).
  • Consumindo GraphQL com Elixir?
    8 projects | dev.to | 2 Jun 2022
    httpoison:1.8 (Cliente HTTP, para requisições)
  • Elixir: Consumindo dados de uma API externa
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2022
    Você pode encontrar a versão mais recente do HTTPoison em: https://hex.pm/packages/httpoison
  • how to make HTTPOISON POST request with form-data ?
    1 project | /r/elixir | 23 Aug 2021
    Perhaps this thread has what you're looking for https://elixirforum.com/t/httpoison-post-multipart-with-more-form-than-the-file/4222/5 or try this GitHub issue https://github.com/edgurgel/httpoison/issues/237

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hackney and httpoison you can also consider the following projects:

tesla - The flexible HTTP client library for Elixir, with support for middleware and multiple adapters.

httpotion - [Deprecated because ibrowse is not maintained] HTTP client for Elixir (use Tesla please)

lhttpc - What used to be here -- this is a backwards-compat user and repo m(

web_socket - An exploration into a stand-alone library for Plug applications to easily adopt WebSockets.

Ralitobu.Plug - Elixir Plug for Ralitobu, the Rate Limiter with Token Bucket algorithm

ExVCR - HTTP request/response recording library for elixir, inspired by VCR.

HttpBuilder - A DSL for building chainable, composable HTTP requests. API structure taken from the lovely elm-http-builder

mochiweb - MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.

Maxwell - Maxwell is an HTTP client which support for middleware and multiple adapters.

httprot - Prot prot prot.