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Top 18 Rust HTTP Client Projects
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Project mention: Hurl vs Postman: Git-Friendly API Testing With Proxy-Aware Egress (2026) | dev.to | 2026-06-12
Hurl ships as a native binary.
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Project mention: Introducing LlamaStash: a zero-overhead, terminal-native llama.cpp launcher | dev.to | 2026-06-02
Building LlamaStash brought me back to a lot of that, but the ground has shifted. ratatui (the maintained fork of tui-rs) is a real, polished framework now. tokio makes async daemons boring in a good way. hyper gives you a respectable HTTP server in a few hundred lines. crossterm handles the cross-platform terminal mess. sysinfo covers host metrics. The pieces are all there and you have LLMs to help you speed up everything to 10x.
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The reqwest-backed HTTP client that ACT uses has a custom DNS resolver that sits in front of every outbound request. After a name resolves, every resolved IP is checked against the operator's --http-deny cidr=… rules before the client proceeds to connect.
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> As an example, I still do not understand why simple HTTP crates require more than 50 to 70 dependencies to execute a simple GET call...
Looking at ureq [0], for example, its direct non-build/non-dev dependencies are (counting duplicates):
- base64
- flate2 (4 transitive dependencies)
- log
- percent-encoding
- rustls (26 transitive dependencies)
- rustls-pki-types (1 transitive dependency)
- ureq-proto (7 transitive dependencies)
- utf-8
- webpki-roots (2 transitive dependencies)
The vast majority of the raw dependency count comes from Rustls and related crates, and I'd imagine reimplementing a TLS stack would be somewhat out of scope for an HTTP crate. I'm not sure there's much room for substantial reductions in dependency count otherwise.
[0]: https://github.com/algesten/ureq
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wasmedge_hyper_demo
Lightweight HTTP servers based on hyper / warp frameworks in the WasmEdge Runtime.
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zaku
Zaku is a native Rust, local-first, open-source API client engineered for speed and productivity.
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agent-fetch
Sandboxed HTTP client with SSRF protection for AI agents. Prevents DNS rebinding, blocks private IPs, and validates every connection — available as a Rust crate and npm package.
Project mention: Show HN: Agent-fetch – Sandboxed HTTP client with SSRF protection for AI agents | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-07 -
Project mention: A Deep Dive into `ararog/uget`: The Modern Command-Line HTTP Client | dev.to | 2025-11-28
This post focuses specifically on the project found at https://github.com/ararog/uget, a minimalist command-line HTTP utility.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Rust HTTP Client discussion
Rust HTTP Client related posts
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Deep Atlantic Storage: Rewriting in Rust
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The capability ceiling — how ACT sandboxes third-party tools
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The Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund
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Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text
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Show HN: Voiden – a free, offline, Git-native API Client
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Testing Multipart Upload Requests in Axum: Three Approaches
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Index
What are some of the best open-source HTTP Client projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurl | 19,003 |
| 2 | hyper | 16,130 |
| 3 | reqwest | 11,668 |
| 4 | ht | 7,861 |
| 5 | ureq | 2,143 |
| 6 | slumber | 1,151 |
| 7 | curl-rust | 1,116 |
| 8 | goose | 979 |
| 9 | wreq | 858 |
| 10 | isahc | 775 |
| 11 | dot-http | 165 |
| 12 | wasmedge_hyper_demo | 95 |
| 13 | zaku | 25 |
| 14 | agent-fetch | 5 |
| 15 | uget | 5 |
| 16 | lancor | 3 |
| 17 | curl-rs | 2 |
| 18 | github-stats | 1 |
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