Typhoeus
Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests. (by typhoeus)
Http Client
'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. (by nahi)
Typhoeus | Http Client | |
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2 | 3 | |
4,064 | 698 | |
0.1% | - | |
0.0 | 4.1 | |
6 months ago | 3 months ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | Ruby License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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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.
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.
Http Client
Posts with mentions or reviews of Http Client.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-15.
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Turbocharge HTTP requests in Ruby
I think an implementation similar to this is built-in transparently to the oft-ignored ruby httpclient
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The Best Ruby HTTP clients for 2021
I also don't know why these comparisons never include one of my favorites, HTTPClient. Although it's got some issues (pun intended) in it's maintenance/unclosed issues. :(
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HTTP clients monthly benchmark
A fairly popular HTTP client that isnt included is httpclient
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Typhoeus and Http Client you can also consider the following projects:
Faraday - Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.
RESTClient - Simple HTTP and REST client for Ruby, inspired by microframework syntax for specifying actions.
httparty - :tada: Makes http fun again!
excon - Usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby
Unirest - Unirest in Ruby: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
Patron - Ruby HTTP client based on libcurl
Sawyer - Secret User Agent of HTTP
HTTP - HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts