Top 21 HTTP Client Open-Source Projects

• httpx

  53 12,234 9.0 Python

  A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋

  

Project mention: A Retrospective on Requests | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-27

For reference, it's a butterfly, not a moth.

Source: https://github.com/encode/httpx/issues/834

• Armeria

  7 4,671 9.6 Java

  Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.

  

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• Fuel

  3 4,495 0.0 Kotlin

  The easiest HTTP networking library for Kotlin/Android

• req

  0 3,988 8.4 Go

  Simple Go HTTP client with Black Magic (by imroc)

• heimdall

  4 2,554 0.0 Go

  An enhanced HTTP client for Go (by gojek)

  

• requests

  25 1,385 7.2 Go

  HTTP requests for Gophers (by earthboundkid)

Project mention: I wrote my own Go HTTP client | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-30

• Google HTTP Client

  0 1,364 7.6 Java

  Google HTTP Client Library for Java

  

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• Niquests

  6 721 8.7 Python

  Requests but with HTTP/3, HTTP/2, Multiplexed Connections, System CAs, Certificate Revocation, DNS over HTTPS / TLS / QUIC or UDP, Async, DNSSEC, and (much) pain removed!

  

Project mention: Revived the promise made six years ago for Requests 3 | dev.to | 2024-04-02

Just around my intent to give up on urllib3 evolution, we proposed a fork of both urllib3 and Requests, namely urllib3-future and Niquests.

• khttp

  1 488 0.0 Kotlin

  Kotlin HTTP requests library. Similar to Python requests.

• kohttp

  0 476 0.0 Kotlin

  Kotlin DSL http client

• go-cleanhttp

  1 354 0.0 Go

  Get easily stdlib HTTP client, which does not share any state with other clients.

  

• Play WS

  2 220 8.5 Scala

  Standalone Play WS, an async HTTP client with fluent API

  

• methanol

  3 210 8.7 Java

  ⚗️ Lightweight HTTP extensions for Java

Project mention: Any library you would like to recommend to others as it helps you a lot? For me, mapstruct is one of them. Hopefully I would hear some other nice libraries I never try. | /r/java | 2023-05-27

Methanol - Lightweight HTTP extensions for Java: https://github.com/mizosoft/methanol

• httpmocker

  0 177 0.0 Kotlin

  HttpMocker is a simple HTTP mocking library written in Kotlin to quickly and easily handle offline modes in your apps

• go-otelroundtripper

  3 75 5.7 Go

  Go http.RoundTripper that emits open telemetry metrics. This helps you easily get metrics for all external APIs you interact with.

  

• go-http-client

  0 72 2.7 Go

  An enhanced and lightweight http client for Golang

• fetch

  0 69 6.1 Go

  Go Fetch - A Powerful, Lightweight, Easy Http Client, inspired by Web Fetch API (by go-zoox)

  

• httpretry

  2 41 0.0 Go

  Enriches the standard go http client with retry functionality.

• fast-shot

  0 33 7.8 Go

  Hit your API targets with rapid-fire precision using Go's fastest and simple HTTP Client.

  

• go-req

  1 22 1.8 Go

  Declarative golang HTTP client

• httpx

  0 15 0.0 Go

  Reliable HTTP for GoLang (by gogama)

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  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024
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  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024
• A Retrospective on Requests
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
• Show HN: Twitter API Wrapper for Python – No API Keys Needed
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2024
• The biggest leap forward in HTTP clients for Python in years
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2024
• HTTP Rate Limit
  3 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2024
• Didn't want to click on refresh to see updates, this is what I did!
  2 projects | dev.to | 15 Nov 2023
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