5 alternatives to requests
psf/requests — A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library. (54,614 stars, Apache-2.0, auth, infra, dev-tools).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 23 licence-cleared components from psf/requests itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | urllib3/urllib3 | 7.8 | MIT | 4,081 |
| 2 | encode/httpx | 8.3 | BSD-3-Clause | 15,804 |
| 3 | tokio-rs/axum | 6.6 | MIT | 27,629 |
| 4 | guzzle/guzzle | 7.7 | MIT | 23,446 |
| 5 | alamofire/alamofire | 3.1 | MIT | 42,395 |
The alternatives in detail
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urllib3 is a user-friendly HTTP client library for Pythonscore 7.8/10 · MIT permissive · 4,081 stars · 41 components · search them
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A next generation HTTP client for Python. 🦋score 8.3/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 15,804 stars · 21 components · search them
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HTTP routing and request-handling library for Rust that focuses on ergonomics and modularity
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Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client
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Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift
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