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axios/axios

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Express Vite Vue Bun npm

GitHub topics

#hacktoberfest #http-client #javascript #nodejs #promise

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-08-18
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 108 open

109,361

stars

Forks: 11,908
Commits: 2,222 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia

Stack

TypeScript Axum Express NestJS Svelte Cargo Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#api #api-client #api-rest #api-testing #developer-tools #graphql

Updated: 2026-09-30
Lists: 8 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-21
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 846 open

80,558

stars

Forks: 6,138
Commits: 6,201 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

usebruno/bruno

Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)

AI dev

Stack

JavaScript Electron Express React Tailwind CSS npm

GitHub topics

#api-client #api-testing #automation #developer-tools #git #graphql-client

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-12-02
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 1,886 open

47,542

stars

Forks: 2,987
Commits: 5,047 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

Kong/insomnia

The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express React Tailwind CSS npm

GitHub topics

#api #api-client #api-design #curl #electron-app #graphql

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-16
History: 16 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 876 open

40,015

stars

Forks: 2,365
Commits: 6,496 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

httpie/cli

🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#api #api-client #api-testing #cli #client #curl

Updated: 2024-12-17
Lists: 7 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-25
History: 75 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 338 open

38,533

stars

Forks: 4,004
Commits: 1,797 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

guzzle/guzzle

Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client

AI dev

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#curl #guzzle #http-client #httpclient #php #psr-7

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-02-28
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

23,446

stars

Forks: 2,389
Commits: 4,483 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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mountain-loop/yaak

The most intuitive desktop API client. Organize and execute REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, Server Sent Events, and gRPC 🦬

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Axum React Tailwind CSS Tauri Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#bruno-alternative #graphql #grpc #http #http-client #insomnia-alternative

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2023-02-16
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

19,215

stars

Forks: 812
Commits: 2,752 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Orange-OpenSource/hurl

Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

Stack

Rust Flask Cargo npm pip

GitHub topics

#api-testing #cli #curl #http #http-client #integration-testing

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-08-27
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 203 open

19,195

stars

Forks: 743
Commits: 4,549 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aio-libs/aiohttp

Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#aiohttp #async #asyncio #hacktoberfest #http #http-client

Updated: 2026-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-10-01
History: 10 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 215 open

16,543

stars

Forks: 2,397
Commits: 14,123 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

go-resty/resty

Simple HTTP, REST, and SSE client library for Go

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#backoff #circuit-breaker #curl-command #digest-authentication #go #go-library

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-08-28
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

11,795

stars

Forks: 804
Commits: 743 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

httpie/http-prompt

An interactive command-line HTTP and API testing client built on top of HTTPie featuring autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more. https://twitter.com/httpie

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#api #api-cli #api-testing #autocomplete #cli #developer-tools

Updated: 2024-05-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-06
History: 12 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 56 open

9,110

stars

Forks: 345
Commits: 391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

node-fetch/node-fetch

A light-weight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#fetch #fetch-api #hacktoberfest #http #http-client #node-fetch

Updated: 2026-05-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-26
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 249 open

8,851

stars

Forks: 1,056
Commits: 640 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ducaale/xh

Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#api-testing #cli #developer-tools #http-client #rust #terminal

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-09-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 37 open

8,098

stars

Forks: 147
Commits: 1,861 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

massCodeIO/massCode

A free, open-source developer workspace. Snippets, notes, HTTP requests, calculations, and dev tools in one local-first app.

AI dev

Stack

TypeScript Electron React Tailwind CSS Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#api-client #code-snippets #developer-tools #electron #http-client #knowledge-base

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2022-03-18
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

6,988

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 854 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

elbywan/wretch

A tiny wrapper built around fetch with an intuitive syntax. :candy:

Stack

TypeScript Fastify npm

GitHub topics

#ajax #fetch #formdata #http #http-client #http-request

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

5,175

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 588 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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urllib3/urllib3

urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Python

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#http #http-client #python #urllib3

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-12-11
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 249 open

4,068

stars

Forks: 1,624
Commits: 4,459 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

rs/curlie

The power of curl, the ease of use of httpie.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#api-client #cli #curl #developer-tools #go #http-client

Updated: 2025-12-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-26
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

3,731

stars

Forks: 114
Commits: 91 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

WordPress/Requests

Requests for PHP is a humble HTTP request library. It simplifies how you interact with other sites and takes away all your worries.

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#curl #http #http-client #php #php-curl

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-02-06
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 130 open

3,573

stars

Forks: 499
Commits: 1,849 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

httprb/http

HTTP (The Gem! a.k.a. http.rb) - a fast Ruby HTTP client with a chainable API, streaming support, and timeouts

Stack

Ruby Bundler

GitHub topics

#client #http #http-client #ruby

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

3,082

stars

Forks: 328
Commits: 1,521 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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0x676e67/wreq

An ergonomic, privacy-aware Rust HTTP Client

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#akamai #censorship-resistant #client #crawler #fingerprint #http

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-01
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 27 open

1,068

stars

Forks: 140
Commits: 2,943 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

marmelab/restful.js

A pure JS client for interacting with server-side RESTful resources. Think Restangular without Angular.

Archived

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#frontend #http-client #rest

Updated: 2019-05-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-21
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

961

stars

Forks: 77
Commits: 143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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khaosdoctor/gotql

GraphQL query utility for serverside apps

Stack

TypeScript npm

GitHub topics

#got #graphql #graphql-endpoint #graphql-query #hacktoberfest #http

Updated: 2024-12-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-11-28
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

407

stars

Forks: 20
Commits: 355 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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foxzool/bevy_http_client

A simple HTTP client Bevy Plugin for both native and WASM

AI dev

Stack

Rust Bevy Cargo

GitHub topics

#bevy #http-client #reqwest #rest

Updated: 2026-06-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-08-27
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 9
Commits: 88 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

abdullahselek/go-here

Go client library around the HERE location based APIs.

Stack

GitHub topics

#golang #golang-client #golang-library #here-maps-api #heremaps #http-client

Updated: 2020-06-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-07
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 5
Commits: 69 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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