Unirest
Unirest in Ruby: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. (by Kong)
httparty
:tada: Makes http fun again! (by jnunemaker)
| Unirest | httparty | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 8 | |
| 365 | 5,755 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 0.0 | 6.1 | |
| over 2 years ago | 3 days ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
Unirest
Posts with mentions or reviews of Unirest.
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
httparty
Posts with mentions or reviews of httparty.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-11.
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Reddit API Ruby Gem
I would grab a gem like httparty, and dive into the API docs and see what you can do.
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Web Scraping Google With Ruby
HTTParty — Used to make HTTP requests and fetch the required data.
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Automating Updates to Twilio Webhook URLs
Usually, my ruby HTTP library of choice is HTTParty but I wanted to set this up using the ruby Net::HTTP lib to keep from introducing another dependency.
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Best language to learn quickly/easily to interact with an API?
Everyone here seems to have misread what you wanted. From my interpretation, you are trying to upload a csv somewhere, using an api. With ruby, you can either do it with a built in library or one of the nice http gems. Someone suggested using Python with a builtin library called requests which isn't actually built in, so I'm also going to go with a library that isn't built in. httparty
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How to consume an API that comes with basic authentication?
My go-to is HTTParty for most cases. As a simple example for a one-off request:
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Testing external APIs with Rspec and WebMock
I'm too tied to the implementation. If one day I decide to use Faraday or HTTParty as my HTTP clients instead of Net::HTTP, this test will fail.
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Phase_one, CLI project
httparty gem
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Using the Postmark API and custom metatags with Ruby on Rails
Now we ensured the right meta data is added to the emails with a custom metatag, let's setup the Postmark API to retrieve the email data an show it in our application. The first step is to add a gem so we can send HTTP requests to the Postmark API. There are several good gems for this, I use the httparty gem. So add this to the Gemfile:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Unirest and httparty you can also consider the following projects:
Http Client - 'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby.
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.
HTTP - HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts
Typhoeus - Typhoeus wraps libcurl in order to make fast and reliable requests.
excon - Usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby
Http-2 - Pure Ruby implementation of HTTP/2 protocol