HTTPlug VS Requests

Compare HTTPlug vs Requests and see what are their differences.

HTTPlug

HTTPlug, the HTTP client abstraction for PHP (by php-http)

Requests

Requests for PHP is a humble HTTP request library. It simplifies how you interact with other sites and takes away all your worries. (by rmccue)
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HTTPlug Requests
1 2
2,538 3,557
0.4% 0.1%
3.9 8.1
about 1 month ago 29 days ago
PHP PHP
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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HTTPlug

Posts with mentions or reviews of HTTPlug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-29.
  • API Client Design Across Languages - Part 2 - Making Requests
    9 projects | dev.to | 29 Mar 2022
    Like Node.js, the PHP ecosystem has quite a number of good HTTP request libraries. Guzzle is perhaps one of the most well known, but there are many other popular libraries out there. Luckily, PHP also has some interface standards around HTTP clients and messages, particularly PSR-7, PSR-17, and PSR-18,

Requests

Posts with mentions or reviews of Requests. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-29.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing HTTPlug and Requests you can also consider the following projects:

Guzzle - Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client

Buzz - PHP's lightweight HTTP client

curl-impersonate-php - Curl-Impersonate-PHP is an implementation of the original project Curl-Impersonate, available at https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate, which introduces a specialized cURL build that can mimic the behavior of four major browsers. By using Curl-Impersonate-PHP, you can make HTTP requests from PHP using cURL but with headers and behavior that resemble Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge.

PHP VCR - Record your test suite's HTTP interactions and replay them during future test runs for fast, deterministic, accurate tests.

HTTPFul - A Chainable, REST Friendly, PHP HTTP Client. A sane alternative to cURL.

Retrofit - Retrofit implementation in PHP. A REST client for PHP.

http-client - An advanced async HTTP client library for PHP, enabling efficient, non-blocking, and concurrent requests and responses.

guzzler - Supercharge your app or SDK with a testing library specifically for Guzzle

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