tokio-tungstenite VS reqwest

Compare tokio-tungstenite vs reqwest and see what are their differences.

tokio-tungstenite

Future-based Tungstenite for Tokio. Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation (by snapview)

reqwest

An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client (by seanmonstar)
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tokio-tungstenite reqwest
15 57
1,608 9,095
3.9% -
7.3 8.7
4 months ago 8 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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tokio-tungstenite

Posts with mentions or reviews of tokio-tungstenite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.
  • How to know when can I send a message via a websocket with tokio tungstenite?
    1 project | /r/rust | 9 Dec 2023
    I can't help you debug your code if you do not provide it. Have you looked at the example client?
  • Yet another Web-Socket implementation in rust.
    5 projects | /r/rust | 27 Mar 2023
    It passed all test of the autobahn testsuite And web-socket-benchmark show about 3x faster then tokio-tungstenite
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (7/2023)!
    14 projects | /r/rust | 13 Feb 2023
    There are example files in the tokio-tungstenite crate called `autobahn-client.rs` and `autobahn-server.rs`. Why are they called autobahn? I googled and can't understand what autobahn is all about. Is it a websocket pattern? Or some protocol?
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (5/2023)!
    19 projects | /r/rust | 30 Jan 2023
    I'm using another crate that requires tls, specifically tokio-tungstenite, I'll try your suggestions later today once I get home
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (3/2023)!
    12 projects | /r/rust | 16 Jan 2023
    Tokio-tungstenite - It looks like in this example, it's spamming the task thread with wakeup calls from all of the active connections. This design choice makes me doubt that this was well written in general.
  • Should i use ws-rs?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 21 Aug 2022
    tokio-tungstenite is the more popular library. In frameworks, offhand Axum supports websockets (docs, example)
  • How would you refactor this code to use std's Mutex instead of Tokio's mutex
    2 projects | /r/rust | 21 Aug 2022
    If you only have one task sending data to the sink, you probably don't need forward, as you can just write to the sink directly (you might not even need to split the stream in the first place, but i'm not sure about that). But often you want to write to the sink from different tasks (e.g. this example takes messages sent from one websocket connection, and broadcasts it onto every other connected websocket, so the sink for each websocket needs to be accessed by every other websocket handler task), and you can't do that with only the sink as you can't clone it. Either need to wrap it into a Mutex and clone that around the different tasks (and lock it every time you need to write to it, like OP did originally) or you can use forward to map the rx (receiver) of a channel to the sink, and clone the tx (sender) part of the channel for each task that wants to write to the sink. That way, you only have one task that is accessing the sink directly, so no issues with synchronization.
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here! (30/2022)!
    12 projects | /r/rust | 25 Jul 2022
    Has anyone worked with websockets before? Particularly with the tokio-tungstenite crate? I'm getting a Protocol(ResetWithoutClosingHandshake) error in my request. I send in some text, and i'm supposed to receive an audio file back.
  • What's the best production-grade websocket library in Rust?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 10 Jul 2022
    tokio-tungstenite
  • help using async websocket using tokio-tungstenite
    2 projects | /r/rust | 24 May 2022
    i based my code mostly on the client example from the tokio-tungstenite project: https://github.com/snapview/tokio-tungstenite/blob/master/examples/client.rs

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.
  • Using Auth0 with Tauri
    1 project | dev.to | 7 May 2023
    You can use the tauri-plugin-deep-link crate to register your app as a protocol handler. After you get your code, you can exchange it for an auth token in the same manner as the Electron guide, but for Rust you can use reqwest for the HTTP call.
  • 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:
  • How can I save a blob:<url> to my hard disk? Im currently using Rust to scrape a website, however I dont even know if that is possible
    1 project | /r/rust | 22 Apr 2023
    It's possible, you will want to use crates like https://docs.rs/reqwest/ to download the page and https://docs.rs/scraper/ to extract elements from the page.
  • 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
  • Reqwest cookies feature not working
    1 project | /r/rust | 3 Apr 2023
    The relevant issue seems to be https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/pull/1753

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tokio-tungstenite and reqwest you can also consider the following projects:

async-tungstenite - Async binding for Tungstenite, the Lightweight stream-based WebSocket implementation

hyper - An HTTP library for Rust

Warp - Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in so you and your team can build great software, faster.

curl-rust - Rust bindings to libcurl

axum - Ergonomic and modular web framework built with Tokio, Tower, and Hyper

ureq - A simple, safe HTTP client

tangle - Radically simple multiplayer / networked WebAssembly

Rocket - A web framework for Rust.

warp - A super-easy, composable, web server framework for warp speeds.

surf - Fast and friendly HTTP client framework for async Rust

polars - Dataframes powered by a multithreaded, vectorized query engine, written in Rust

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