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Client projects on GitHub

HTTP and API client libraries for calling remote services.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Client projects on GitHub are requests (54.5K stars), curl (43.1K stars) and cli (38.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 20 Client repositories with 395.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was herdr-gpui, with +32 stars in a day.

20Projects

395.4KStars in total

+108Stars in a day

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+32

herdr-gpui

penso/herdr-gpui · ★ 1.4K

Herdr GPUI is a native desktop client for Herdr, a terminal/agent session daemon, letting you view terminal sessions, workspaces, Git worktrees, and agent activity through your local Herdr daemon on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

+17

curl

curl/curl · ★ 43.1K

curl is a command-line tool and library (libcurl) for transferring data to or from a server using URL syntax.

+17

tdesktop

telegramdesktop/tdesktop · ★ 33.3K

This is Telegram Desktop, the official desktop client of the Telegram messenger. The repository holds its complete source code and build instructions, written in C++.

+13

Free-servers

Pawdroid/Free-servers · ★ 19.5K

A free share of proxy-server subscription addresses and nodes for Clash, SS/SSR, V2Ray, Trojan and VLESS — speed-tested by hand and refreshed every 6 hours, completely free.

The all-time top

20 projects · by stars

#1 · psf/requests
requests
It is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library for Python that lets you send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily.
54.5K
#2 · curl/curl
curl
curl is a command-line tool and library (libcurl) for transferring data to or from a server using URL syntax.
43.1K
#3 · httpie/cli
cli
HTTPie is a command-line HTTP client built to make interacting with APIs and web servers from the terminal as human-friendly as possible. It ships two commands, http and https, for sending arbitrary HTTP requests with simple syntax and colorized, formatted output.
38.6K

4
tdesktop
33.3Ktelegramdesktop/tdesktop · C++
This is Telegram Desktop, the official desktop client of the Telegram messenger. The repository holds its complete source code and build instructions, written in C++.
5
WindTerm
32.5KkingToolbox/WindTerm · C
WindTerm is a free professional SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client and terminal built for DevOps, combining remote connections, a local shell and file transfer in one application.
6
backbone
28.1Kjashkenas/backbone · JavaScript
Backbone.js gives structure to JavaScript-heavy applications through Models with key-value binding and custom events, Collections with a rich enumerable API, and Views with declarative event handling, all tied together by syncing data over a RESTful JSON interface.
7
RedisDesktopManager
23.2Kredis/RedisDesktopManager · C++
RESP.app, formerly known as RedisDesktopManager, is a GUI for Redis — a desktop client for working visually with Redis databases.
8
grpc-go
23.1Kgrpc/grpc-go · Go
The Go implementation of gRPC: a high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. You use it to build gRPC clients and servers in Go.
9
Free-servers
19.5KPawdroid/Free-servers
A free share of proxy-server subscription addresses and nodes for Clash, SS/SSR, V2Ray, Trojan and VLESS — speed-tested by hand and refreshed every 6 hours, completely free.
10
BBLL
17.5Kxiaye13579/BBLL
BBLL is a third-party Bilibili client for Android TV, built by an individual developer for learning and communication. It is not a hack of the official app: it simply wraps Bilibili's existing APIs to bring Bilibili videos and live streams to the big screen.
11
cpp-httplib
16.9Kyhirose/cpp-httplib · C++
A C++11 single-file header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library — you add networking to a C++ program by including one header, httplib.h.
12
not-paid
15.7Kkleampa/not-paid · JavaScript
A snippet you embed on a client's site that gradually reduces the body tag's opacity each day until it fades to nothing, as a nudge to pay their overdue invoice.
13
grpc-rust
12.5Kgrpc/grpc-rust · Rust
tonic — a native Rust gRPC client and server implementation. It runs over HTTP/2 with first-class async/await support and is built as a core building block for production systems written in Rust.
14
google-api-nodejs-client
12.3Kgoogleapis/google-api-nodejs-client · TypeScript
This is Google's officially supported Node.js client library for calling Google APIs, with built-in support for OAuth 2.0, API keys, and JWT (service account) authentication.
15
Telethon
12.1KLonamiWebs/Telethon · Python
Telethon is an asyncio Python 3 MTProto library for talking directly to Telegram's API, letting you act as a full user account or as a bot.
16
socket.io-client
10.6Ksocketio/socket.io-client
The official Socket.IO client: the browser and Node.js side of Socket.IO, a realtime application framework for exchanging events between clients and a server.
17
herdr-gpui
1.4Kpenso/herdr-gpui · Rust
Herdr GPUI is a native desktop client for Herdr, a terminal/agent session daemon, letting you view terminal sessions, workspaces, Git worktrees, and agent activity through your local Herdr daemon on macOS, Linux, and Windows.
18
media-inference-worker
329framepipe-dev/media-inference-worker · Python
A small Python client for media model inference — the README describes it as an old test client from the media pipeline, apparently copied out as a snapshot.
19
openframe-saas-desktop
156flamingo-stack/openframe-saas-desktop · Rust
OpenFrame Console is a Tauri 2 desktop shell for the OpenFrame SaaS platform. It wraps the openframe-oss-frontend static web export and adds OS-level features a browser tab can't do, like tray notifications, persistent sessions, and system-browser OAuth sign-in.
20
Chat_UI
111KODAMA-TECHNOLOGY/Chat_UI
ChatUI is a minimal LLM chat client made of just two files (a main HTML file and a config file) that together total under 100 KB, with zero dependencies, so it runs directly in any browser.