Programming Languages

• JavaScript
• Python
• Java
• Rust
• Swift
• Haskell
• Go
• C++
• PHP
• Bash/Shell

JavaScript

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
Axios	Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
node-fetch	A light-weight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js
Got	🌐 Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js
superagent	Ajax for Node.js and browsers (JS HTTP client)
Needle	Nimble, streamable HTTP client for Node.js. With proxy, iconv, cookie, deflate & multipart support.

Python

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
Requests	A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
urllib3	Python HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, user friendly, and more.
httplib2	Small, fast HTTP client library for Python. Features persistent connections, cache, and Google App …
GRequests	Requests + Gevent = <3
Uplink	A Declarative HTTP Client for Python

Java

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
Eclipse Jetty	Eclipse Jetty® - Web Container & Clients - supports HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.0, websocket, servlets…
OkHttp	Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.
Heritrix	Heritrix is the Internet Archive's open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler…
Apache HttpClient	Mirror of Apache HttpClient
Google HTTP Client Library	Google HTTP Client Library for Java
Http Request	Java HTTP Request Library

Rust

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
reqwest	An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client
hyper	An HTTP library for Rust
Isahc	The practical HTTP client that is fun to use.
Surf	Fast and friendly HTTP client framework for async Rust
curl-rust	Rust bindings to libcurl

Swift

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
Alamofire	Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift
SwiftHTTP	Thin wrapper around NSURLSession in swift. Simplifies HTTP requests.
Net	Http Request wrapper written in Swift
Moya	Network abstraction layer written in Swift.
Just	Swift HTTP for Humans
Kingfisher	A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web.

Haskell

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
Req	An HTTP client library
http-client	An HTTP client engine, intended as a base layer for more user-friendly packages.
servant-client	Main repository for the servant libraries — DSL for describing, serving, querying, mocking, documen…
http-streams	Haskell HTTP client library for use with io-streams

Go

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
Req	Simple Go HTTP client with Black Magic
Resty	Simple HTTP and REST client library for Go
Sling	A Go HTTP client library for creating and sending API requests
requests	A golang HTTP client library. Salute to python requests.

C++

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
Apache Serf	Mirror of Apache Serf
Curl for People	C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.
cpp-netlib	The C++ Network Library Project -- cross-platform, standards compliant networking library.
Webcc	Lightweight C++ HTTP client and server library based on Asio for embedding purpose.
Proxygen	A collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server.
cpp-httplib	A C++ header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library
NFHTTP	A cross platform C++ HTTP library that interfaces natively to other platforms.
EasyHttp	A cross-platform HTTP client library with a focus on usability and speed

PHP

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
Guzzle	Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client
HTTPlug	HTTPlug, the HTTP client abstraction for PHP
HTTP Client	Async HTTP/1.1+2 client for PHP based on Amp.
SendGrid HTTP Client	SendGrid's PHP HTTP Client for calling APIs
Buzz	PHP's lightweight HTTP client

Bash/Shell

Name	Description	GitHub Activity
HTTPie	As easy as /aitch-tee-tee-pie/ 🥧 Modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. J…
curl	A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, …
aria2	aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in c…
HTTP Prompt	An interactive command-line HTTP and API testing client built on top of HTTPie featuring autocomple…
Resty	Little command line REST client that you can use in pipelines (bash or zsh).
Ain	A HTTP API client for the terminal