Unirest
Unirest in Ruby: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library. (by Kong)
Http Client
'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. (by nahi)
| Unirest | Http Client | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 3 | |
| 365 | 698 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 0.0 | 4.1 | |
| over 2 years 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.
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.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Unirest yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
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 Unirest and Http Client you can also consider the following projects:
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
Faraday - Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends.
httparty - :tada: Makes http fun again!
Sawyer - Secret User Agent of HTTP
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