indicatif VS reqwest

Compare indicatif vs reqwest and see what are their differences.

indicatif

A command line progress reporting library for Rust (by console-rs)

reqwest

An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client (by seanmonstar)
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indicatif reqwest
22 57
4,051 8,868
2.3% -
7.8 8.7
about 1 month ago 7 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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indicatif

Posts with mentions or reviews of indicatif. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-06.

reqwest

Posts with mentions or reviews of reqwest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-18.
  • The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2024
    > If you are equally picky and constrain yourself to parts of the ecosystem which care about binary size, you still have more options and can avoid size issues.

    What's an example of this for, say, libcurl? On my system it has a tiny number of recursive dependencies, around a dozen. [0] Furthermore if I want to write a C program that uses libcurl I have to download zero bytes of data ... because it's a shared library that is already installed on my system, since so many programs already use it.

    I don't really know the appropriate comparison for Rust. reqwest seems roughly comparable, but it's an HTTP client library, and not a general purpose network client like curl. Obviously curl can do a lot more. Even the list of direct dependencies for reqwest is quite long [1], and it's built on top of another http library [2] that has its own long list of dependencies, a list that includes tokio, no small library itself.

    In terms of final binary size, the installed size of the curl package on my system, which includes both the command line tool and development dependencies for libcurl, is 1875.03 KiB.

    [0] I'm excluding the dependency on the ca-certificates package, since this only provides the certificate chain for TLS and lots of programs rely on it.

    [1] https://crates.io/crates/reqwest/0.11.24/dependencies

    [2] https://crates.io/crates/hyper/0.14.28/dependencies

  • What We Need Instead of "Web Components"
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2023
  • ReductStore 1.6.0 has been released with new license and client SDK for Rust
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023
    ReductStore was rewritten from C++ to Rust a few months ago. We are delighted to be part of the Rust community and have taken a new step towards Rust with the Client SDK. The SDK is powered by reqwest and enables asynchronous integration of the database into Rust applications:
  • Rust dependency woes
    2 projects | /r/rust | 20 Jun 2023
    From what I could turn up when googling the specific error lines (here), it has something to do with the crate mio not having support for WASM, but I don’t understand what’s being said on this thread.
  • Authentication system using rust (actix-web) and sveltekit - Automated testing
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 May 2023
    When starting out, we made some design decisions at the backend. The decision will allow us to independently test the service without interfering with the real application using a term called integration testing. We'll utilize two "dev" packages: reqwest and fake. Dev dependencies only get introduced into your application in development or during testing. In production, they are not included:
  • Becoming Rustacean:Awesome Free Online Resources to Learn Rust Programming
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2023
    Rust allows me to mainly only run the application to confirm things work from a business perspective.

    For people starting out building stuff in rust - understand that there is a distinction of async code and libraries and can lead to confusing compiler errors if you don't realize there is a distinction. It's simple in hindsight but did cause me to waste hours barking up the wrong trees at first. Other wise just learn about `match` and Result/Option types asap, they're fundamental.

    https://github.com/http-rs/tide tide is great to create an http server / routes

    https://github.com/djc/askama I use this to template out HTML and it checks all my boxes, dynamic data, passing in functions, control flow.

    https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx sql interface for a variety of backend, async safe.

    https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest http client to make requests

    Rust is amazing, don't let the initial few speed bumps discourage you - building real things with rust is no more challenging today than any other modern language stack.

  • This Month in hyper: March 2023
    3 projects | /r/rust | 7 Apr 2023
    Is there any this month in reqwest? I would like to show my interest in https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/issues/39
  • You Have Mail: Email Notification on Android without Google Play Services
    3 projects | /r/rust | 16 Mar 2023
    Reqwest for HTTP connections
  • Announcing diff.rs!
    13 projects | /r/rust | 7 Mar 2023
    It works by fetching a crate's metadata from crates.io, downloading the sources using reqwest, uncompressing them using flate2, extracting them (using tar), and finally rendering a diff (using similar). In the UI you can switch between different versions of the crate to diff against and it also has a search bar to enter the crate name.
  • Reqwest tutorial
    2 projects | /r/rust | 24 Feb 2023
    I am wondering this, too. Making a request is mostly about one line of code and as you said it is documented and the documentation refers to examples.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing indicatif and reqwest you can also consider the following projects:

hyper - An HTTP library for Rust

curl-rust - Rust bindings to libcurl

ureq - A simple, safe HTTP client

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

surf - Fast and friendly HTTP client framework for async Rust

actix-web - Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

tokio - A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

pb - Console progress bar for Rust

tokio-tungstenite - Future-based Tungstenite for Tokio. Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation

curl-rs - A curl(libcurl) mod for rust.

yew - Rust / Wasm framework for creating reliable and efficient web applications

async-std - Async version of the Rust standard library