Http-Client Libraries Used in Web Scraping

javascript

wreck
378 18.1.0 (2025-07-24 23:01:15 ago) Aug 06 2011
superagent
16,610 10.1.1 (2024-10-22 17:26:05 ago) Aug 22 2011
needle
1,631 3.5.0 (2026-03-12 22:24:55 ago) Dec 11 2011
got
14,897 15.0.1 (2026-04-08 16:15:35 ago) Mar 27 2014
axios
108,987 1.15.0 (2026-04-08 16:09:38 ago) Aug 29 2014
node-fetch
8,860 3.3.2 (2023-11-30 14:10:12 ago) Dec 28 2012

python

hrequests
1,001 0.9.2 (2024-12-01 02:55:27 ago) Feb 23 2022
treq
605 25.5.0 (2025-06-03 03:42:30 ago) Dec 28 2012
curl-cffi
1,751 0.7.1 (2024-07-13 09:07:25 ago) Feb 23 2022
pycurl
1,147 7.45.7 (2025-09-24 13:35:56 ago) Feb 25 2003
primp new
504 1.2.2 (2026-04-03 07:11:15 ago) Jun 01 2024
curl-impersonate
5,944 v0.6.1 (2024-03-02 18:08:29 ago) Feb 23 2022
aiohttp
16,395 3.13.5 (2026-03-31 21:56:30 ago) Jul 26 2019
httpx
15,183 0.28.1 (2024-12-06 15:37:21 ago) Jul 26 2019
requests
53,883 2.33.1 (2026-03-30 16:09:13 ago) Feb 14 2011

r

ralger
165 2.3.0 (2021-03-18 00:10:00 ago) Dec 22 2019
crul
107 1.6.0 (2024-07-19 19:50:00 ago) Nov 09 2016
rvest
1,517 1.0.5 (2024-02-12 21:10:00 ago) Nov 22 2014
httr
985 1.4.8 (2023-08-15 11:00:00 ago) May 06 2012

go

req
4,781 v3.57.0 (2025-12-16 09:07:40 ago) Nov 20 2023
resty
11,632 v2.17.2 (2026-02-14 22:43:18 ago) Aug 05 2024

php

httpful
1,803 1.0.0 (2024-05-01 11:33:16 ago) Apr 14 2012
buzz
1,924 1.3.0 (2024-09-23 13:16:34 ago) Nov 11 2011
requests
3,577 v2.0.17 (2025-12-12 17:47:19 ago) Oct 06 2013
symfony-http
2,033 v8.0.8 (2026-03-30 15:14:47 ago) Apr 28 2019
guzzle
23,447 7.10.0 (2025-08-23 22:36:01 ago) Nov 14 2011

ruby

http.rb
3,104 0.17.0 (2026-03-25 01:20:02 ago) Mar 20 2015
nestful
505 1.1.4 (2020-02-07 22:04:51 ago) Apr 20 2010
http-2
908 1.1.3 (2026-03-05 00:04:35 ago) Sep 25 2013
mechanize new
4,440 2.14.0 (2025-01-05 18:30:46 ago) Jul 25 2009
em-http-request
1,219 1.1.7 (2020-08-31 21:38:00 ago) Oct 25 2009
typhoeus
4,131 1.6.0 (2026-03-10 12:58:26 ago) Oct 06 2009
httparty
5,889 0.24.2 (2026-01-14 22:54:36 ago) Jul 25 2009
httpclient
707 2.9.0 (2025-02-22 01:13:49 ago) Jul 25 2009
excon
1,172 1.4.2 (2026-03-20 19:18:25 ago) Oct 31 2009
faraday
5,927 2.14.1 (2026-02-07 15:17:15 ago) Dec 19 2009
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