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HTTP projects on GitHub
The web core protocol and the clients, servers, and tooling built around it.
As of , the most-starred HTTP projects on GitHub are axios (109.3K stars), system-design-101 (90.5K stars) and hoppscotch (80.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 210 HTTP repositories with 4.2M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was YunX, with +119 stars in a day.
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YunX
CYQawa/YunX · ★ 4.6KYunX (云析) is an open-source Android app that parses share links from Chinese cloud storage services and downloads the files directly, with chunked concurrent downloading and resume support.
+82engram
Gentleman-Programming/engram · ★ 7.4KEngram is a persistent memory system for AI coding agents — it gives your agent a brain that survives between sessions instead of forgetting everything when a session ends.
+653x-ui
MHSanaei/3x-ui · ★ 48.1K3X-UI is an open-source web control panel for managing Xray-core servers, letting you deploy, configure, and monitor many proxy and VPN protocols from one VPS or across multiple nodes.
+38anubis
TecharoHQ/anubis · ★ 23.5KAnubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of incoming connections with challenges to protect upstream resources from AI scraper bots — built to defend the small internet from endless storms of AI-company requests.
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Top 100 of 210 · by stars
- 109.3K
#1 · axios/axios
axios
axios is a promise-based HTTP client for JavaScript: you use it to send requests to APIs and servers and then work with the responses as promises.
- 90.5K
#2 · ByteByteGoHq/system-design-101system-design-101
A free, visual collection of short explainers and cheat sheets covering core system design concepts (APIs, databases, caching, message queues, real-world company architectures) to help you understand how production systems work and prepare for system design interviews.
- 80.6K
#3 · hoppscotch/hoppscotchhoppscotch
Hoppscotch is an open-source API development ecosystem for building, testing and debugging REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, MQTT, Server-Sent Events and Socket.IO APIs, positioned as an open alternative to Postman or Insomnia.
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caddy
78.1Kcaddyserver/caddy · GoCaddy is a fast, extensible web server written in Go that enables HTTPS automatically by default. It can act as an HTTP/1-2-3 server, reverse proxy, and general platform for running Go-based 'apps' (modules).
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flask
74.9Kpallets/flask · PythonFlask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework for Python — designed to make getting started quick and easy, with the ability to scale up to complex applications.
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express
69.6Kexpressjs/express · JavaScriptExpress is a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js, used for building HTTP servers, APIs, and web apps.
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socket.io
63.2Ksocketio/socket.io · TypeScriptSocket.IO is a library that enables bidirectional, low-latency, real-time communication between a Node.js server and clients such as browsers or mobile apps.
- 8

trackerslist
55.4Kngosang/trackerslistA collection of lists of public BitTorrent trackers that is checked and updated automatically every day, intended to be added to torrents or magnet links to improve peer discovery.
- 9

requests
54.5Kpsf/requests · PythonIt is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library for Python that lets you send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily.
- 10

3x-ui
48.1KMHSanaei/3x-ui · Go3X-UI is an open-source web control panel for managing Xray-core servers, letting you deploy, configure, and monitor many proxy and VPN protocols from one VPS or across multiple nodes.
- 11

okhttp
47.1Klysine-dev/okhttp · KotlinOkHttp is an efficient HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM, handling HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, websockets, and SSE with connection pooling and transparent GZIP.
- 12
mitmproxy
45.7Kmitmproxy/mitmproxy · Pythonmitmproxy is an interactive, SSL/TLS-capable intercepting proxy for HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and WebSockets, used by penetration testers and developers to inspect and modify traffic. mitmdump is its CLI version, and mitmweb is a web-based interface.
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what-happens-when
43.4Kalex/what-happens-whenA long-form, extremely detailed walkthrough answering the classic interview question of what happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter, tracing the whole path from keypress to rendered page.
- 14

aria2
43.1Karia2/aria2 · C++aria2 is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line download utility that fetches files over HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink, and can combine multiple protocols/sources for the same file to maximize bandwidth.
- 15
curl
43.1Kcurl/curl · Ccurl is a command-line tool and library (libcurl) for transferring data to or from a server using URL syntax.
- 16

Alamofire
42.4KAlamofire/Alamofire · SwiftAlamofire is an HTTP networking library written in Swift. It wraps Apple's URLSession so iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS apps can make requests in a few lines of chainable code.
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dubbo
41.6Kapache/dubbo · JavaApache Dubbo is an RPC and microservices framework — this repository is its Java implementation. It covers communication, service discovery, traffic management, observability, security, and tooling for building enterprise-grade microservices.
- 18

wrk
40.4Kwg/wrk · Cwrk is a modern HTTP benchmarking tool that generates significant load against a server using a single multi-core machine, measuring latency and throughput.
- 19
fiber
40.2Kgofiber/fiber · GoFiber is an Express-inspired web framework for Go, built on top of the fasthttp engine, with fast development and high performance in mind.
- 20

insomnia
40KKong/insomnia · TypeScriptInsomnia is an open-source, cross-platform API client for debugging, designing, testing and mocking APIs over GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC.
- 21
cli
38.6Khttpie/cli · PythonHTTPie 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.
- 22
fastify
37.3Kfastify/fastify · JavaScriptFastify is a fast, low-overhead web framework for Node.js used to build HTTP servers and APIs. It is inspired by Hapi and Express and ranks among the fastest web frameworks around.
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koa
35.7Kkoajs/koa · JavaScriptKoa is an expressive HTTP middleware framework for Node.js built on ES2017 async functions, designed to make writing web apps and APIs more enjoyable.
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framework
35Klaravel/framework · PHPLaravel is a PHP web application framework known for expressive, elegant syntax, built to make development enjoyable and to ease the common tasks most web projects share.
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nps
34.2Kehang-io/nps · GoNPS is a lightweight, high-performance intranet penetration (reverse proxy/tunnel) server that exposes internal network services to the outside world. It forwards tcp, udp, http(s), socks5 and other protocols, and comes with a full-featured web admin panel.
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remix
33.4Kremix-run/remix · TypeScriptRemix 3 is a full-stack web framework built directly on Web APIs (Streams, Fetch, Web Crypto) rather than bundler-specific abstractions, distributed as one umbrella 'remix' package made of many standalone JS/TS tools.
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go-zero
33.4Kzeromicro/go-zero · Gogo-zero is a cloud-native Go framework for building web and RPC microservices, packed with built-in engineering practices. It has been serving sites with tens of millions of users for years and is listed in the CNCF Landscape.
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AFNetworking
33.3KAFNetworking/AFNetworking · Objective-CA delightful networking library for iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS, built on the Foundation URL Loading System. Deprecated since January 2023 - the repo remains online as an archive.
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echo
32.8Klabstack/echo · GoEcho is a high performance, minimalist web framework for Go, used to build web apps, RESTful APIs and microservices.
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hono
32.6Khonojs/hono · TypeScriptHono (Japanese for 'flame' 🔥) is a small, simple, and ultrafast web framework built on Web Standards for the TypeScript and JavaScript ecosystem.
- 31

beego
32.4Kbeego/beego · GoBeego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for Go, aimed at rapid development of enterprise applications: RESTful APIs, web apps and backend services.
- 32
k6
32Kgrafana/k6 · Gok6 is a modern load-testing tool: you write test scripts that simulate real user traffic against your application to see how it performs. It is built for developers and testers in the DevOps era — like unit testing, but for performance.
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nginx
31.9Knginx/nginx · CNGINX ('engine x') is a free, open source web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, API gateway and content cache — described as the world's most popular web server.
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openai-python
31.9Kopenai/openai-python · PythonThis is the official Python library for the OpenAI API, giving convenient programmatic access to OpenAI models like GPT for text, vision, audio and more.
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influxdb
31.8Kinfluxdata/influxdb · RustInfluxDB 3 Core is an open source time series database built to collect, process, transform, and store event and time series data, written in Rust on top of Apache Arrow, DataFusion, and Parquet.
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OpenAPI-Specification
31.3KOAI/OpenAPI-Specification · MarkdownThe OpenAPI Specification (OAS) is a community-driven open standard from the OpenAPI Initiative, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project: a standard, programming language-agnostic way to describe HTTP APIs.
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wttr.in
30.7Kchubin/wttr.in · Gowttr.in is a console-oriented weather forecast service: you check the weather with curl from a terminal or open it in a browser, and it draws the forecast as ASCII art for terminals, HTML for browsers, or PNG images for graphical viewers.
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hutool
30.2Kchinabugotech/hutool · JavaHutool calls itself 'a set of tools that keep Java sweet': a rich, easy-to-use Java utility library whose tool classes help you get everyday development tasks done quickly.
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NeteaseCloudMusicApi
30.2KBinaryify/NeteaseCloudMusicApiNeteaseCloudMusicApi is an open-source Node.js API service that wraps Netease Cloud Music, one of China's largest music streaming platforms, so your code can talk to it over HTTP. It has collected about 30,000 GitHub stars since 2016.
- 40

django-rest-framework
30.2Kencode/django-rest-framework · PythonDjango REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs with Django: you add it to a project and get a full REST API around your data.
- 41

CloudflareSpeedTest
29.5KXIU2/CloudflareSpeedTest · GoA command-line tool that tests Cloudflare CDN latency and download speed to find the fastest IPs (IPv4 + IPv6) for your connection. It also supports other CDNs and sites that resolve to multiple IPs.
- 42
locust
28.2Klocustio/locust · PythonLocust is an open source performance/load testing tool for HTTP and other protocols — you define your tests in regular Python code and run them from the command line or a web-based UI.
- 43

postgrest
27.7KPostgREST/postgrest · HaskellPostgREST is a standalone server that turns any existing PostgreSQL database into a full RESTful API automatically — no backend code to write.
- 44

pingora
27.6Kcloudflare/pingora · RustPingora is a Rust framework by Cloudflare for building fast, reliable, and programmable network services and proxies. It is battle-tested, having served more than 40 million internet requests per second for years.
- 45

axum
27.5Ktokio-rs/axum · Rustaxum is an HTTP routing and request-handling library for Rust with a focus on ergonomics and modularity — the kind of crate you build web services and APIs with.
- 46
gopeed
27KGopeedLab/gopeed · DartGopeed (short for Go Speed) is a free, open-source download manager built with Go and Flutter. It handles HTTP, HTTPS, BitTorrent, magnet links, and ed2k across desktop, mobile, and the web.
- 47

vapor
26.2Kvapor/vapor · SwiftVapor is an HTTP web framework for Swift — a foundation for building websites, APIs, and cloud projects on the server.
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A2A
26.2Ka2aproject/A2A · ShellThe Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol is an open standard that lets gen AI agents built on different frameworks and run by different companies talk to each other — discovering capabilities, negotiating how to interact, and collaborating on long-running tasks as agents, not just as tools.
- 49
crawlee
26.2Kapify/crawlee · TypeScriptA web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js: you write crawlers in JavaScript or TypeScript to crawl sites, extract data (e.g. for AI, LLM and RAG pipelines) and save it to disk or cloud.
- 50

kratos
26Kgo-kratos/kratos · GoKratos is a lightweight Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, with small, explicit APIs so your code can focus on business logic instead of plumbing.
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fetch
25.8KJakeChampion/fetch · JavaScriptA window.fetch polyfill — a Promise-based mechanism for making web requests in the browser, giving older browsers the fetch API as a replacement for XMLHttpRequest.
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Rocket
25.8Krwf2/Rocket · RustRocket is an async web framework for Rust focused on usability, security, extensibility, and speed — you write Rust, and Rocket handles routing and dispatching web requests.
- 53

iris
25.6Kkataras/iris · GoIris is an open-source web framework for Go for building websites and APIs. It bills itself as fast, fully featured and easy to learn, with MVC, sessions, websockets and lots of built-in middleware.
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colly
25.6Kgocolly/colly · GoColly is a scraping and crawling framework for Go: a clean interface for writing any kind of crawler, scraper or spider that extracts structured data from websites, for things like data mining, processing or archiving.
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request
25.5Krequest/request · JavaScriptRequest is a simplified HTTP client for Node.js, built to make HTTP calls as simply as possible. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default.
- 56

vegeta
25.2Ktsenart/vegeta · GoVegeta is a versatile HTTP load testing tool that drills HTTP services with a constant request rate — its tagline: It's over 9000! It works as both a CLI and a Go library and avoids Coordinated Omission.
- 57

actix-web
24.9Kactix/actix-web · RustActix Web is a powerful, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust, used to build web servers, APIs and realtime services.
- 58

proxyee-down
24.6Kproxyee-down-org/proxyee-down · JavaProxyee Down is an open-source, free HTTP downloader built on an HTTP proxy layer, offering multi-connection chunked downloads and support for custom HTTP requests, with an extension system for special download needs.
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proxy_pool
23.8Kjhao104/proxy_pool · PythonProxyPool is an open-source proxy IP pool for web spiders: it keeps harvesting free proxies from the web, checks that they work, stores the good ones in Redis and serves them to your crawler over a small HTTP API.
- 60

fasthttp
23.5Kvalyala/fasthttp · GoFastHTTP is a fast HTTP server and client library for Go, tuned for high performance: zero memory allocations in hot paths and up to 10x the speed of net/http.
- 61

anubis
23.5KTecharoHQ/anubis · GoAnubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of incoming connections with challenges to protect upstream resources from AI scraper bots — built to defend the small internet from endless storms of AI-company requests.
- 62

guzzle
23.4Kguzzle/guzzle · PHPGuzzle is an extensible PHP HTTP client library that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services.
- 63

api-guidelines
23.3Kmicrosoft/api-guidelinesA collection of guidelines published by Microsoft for designing consistent, well-behaved RESTful web APIs, shared publicly to foster dialogue in the broader API community.
- 64

grpc-go
23.1Kgrpc/grpc-go · GoThe 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.
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chi
23Kgo-chi/chi · Gochi is a lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services, aimed especially at large REST APIs that stay maintainable as the project grows and changes.
- 66

ws
22.8Kwebsockets/ws · JavaScriptws is a simple to use, blazing fast, thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server implementation for Node.js, with support for the permessage-deflate compression extension.
- 67

sails
22.8Kbalderdashy/sails · JavaScriptSails.js is a realtime MVC web framework for Node.js, designed to make it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade apps and APIs, with a structure inspired by Ruby on Rails.
- 68

SafeLine
22.8Kchaitin/SafeLine · GoSafeLine is a self-hosted web application firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy that protects your web apps from attacks and exploits by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic.
- 69
thingsboard
22.6Kthingsboard/thingsboard · JavaThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for device management, data collection, processing, and visualization: connect devices, store their telemetry, and build dashboards on top.
- 70

tornado
22.2Ktornadoweb/tornado · PythonTornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. Thanks to non-blocking network I/O it can scale to tens of thousands of open connections.
- 71
mux
21.8Kgorilla/mux · GoA request router and dispatcher for Go web servers: it matches incoming requests to the right handler based on the URL and other conditions. The name mux stands for 'HTTP request multiplexer'.
- 72

hey
20.7Krakyll/hey · Gohey is a tiny command-line HTTP load generator that sends a configurable number of requests at a given concurrency level and prints performance stats, acting as a replacement for ApacheBench (ab).
- 73
grpc-gateway
20Kgrpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway · GogRPC-Gateway is a protoc plugin that reads your protobuf service definitions and generates a reverse-proxy server which translates a RESTful HTTP API into gRPC, so one service can serve both gRPC and RESTful JSON clients at the same time.
- 74
nginx-proxy
19.9Knginx-proxy/nginx-proxy · PythonA Docker image that runs nginx plus docker-gen: when containers start or stop, docker-gen regenerates the reverse proxy config and reloads nginx, so routing updates itself.
- 75
ingress-nginx
19.5Kkubernetes/ingress-nginx · Goingress-nginx was an Ingress controller for Kubernetes that used NGINX as a reverse proxy and load balancer to route traffic into clusters. The project is now retired.
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yaak
19.3Kmountain-loop/yaak · TypeScriptYaak is a free, open-source desktop API client for firing off REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, and gRPC requests — a privacy-first alternative to Postman, Insomnia, and Bruno.
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goreplay
19.3Kprobelabs/goreplay · GoGoReplay is an open-source network monitoring tool that records your live HTTP traffic and reuses it for shadowing, load testing, monitoring and analysis — so you test with real data instead of synthetic scripts, and deploy with more confidence.
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hurl
19.3KOrange-OpenSource/hurl · RustHurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests written in a simple plain text format. It can chain requests, capture values and evaluate queries on response headers and body — for fetching data as well as testing HTTP sessions.
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elysia
19.3Kelysiajs/elysia · TypeScriptElysia is a TypeScript framework for building HTTP servers and APIs. It pitches end-to-end type safety and a polished developer experience, and it is built on the Bun runtime.
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core
19.1Kadonisjs/core · TypeScriptAdonisJS is a TypeScript-first, fullstack MVC web framework for Node.js, used to build web apps, API servers, and microservices.
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uWebSockets
19KuNetworking/uWebSockets · C++μWebSockets is a simple, secure and standards-compliant web server for demanding applications, built as a C++ library — so optimized for speed and memory that its TLS 1.3 encrypted messaging outruns most servers' cleartext.
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iii
18.8Kiii-hq/iii · Rustiii is a real-time engine for your backend stack: queues, cron, HTTP, state, observability, agents, and sandboxes are collapsed into one live system surface where every service is composable and observable.
- 83

sanic
18.6Ksanic-org/sanic · PythonSanic is a Python 3.10+ web server and web framework written to go fast — you build your app with its framework and it serves it over HTTP at high performance.
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msw
18.3Kmswjs/msw · TypeScriptMock Service Worker (MSW) is the industry-standard API mocking library for JavaScript. It intercepts the network requests your app makes and serves mock responses you define, so you never touch a real backend.
- 85

brpc
17.6Kapache/brpc · C++bRPC is an industrial-grade C++ RPC framework built at Baidu for high-performance systems like search, storage, machine learning, advertisement and recommendation; the name stands for 'better RPC'.
- 86

ZLMediaKit
17.6KZLMediaKit/ZLMediaKit · C++A high-performance, production-grade streaming media server framework written in C++11: it takes in live streams and serves them across many protocols, converting between them on the fly.
- 87

JustAuth
17.5Kjustauth/JustAuth · JavaJustAuth is a small, feature-complete Java library for third-party OAuth login. It integrates dozens of Chinese and international providers, so you can add social login without wrestling each platform's own SDK.
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kubo
17.2Kipfs/kubo · GoKubo is the original and most widely-used Go implementation of IPFS: a daemon that stores and serves content-addressed data over a peer-to-peer network, with a CLI, a WebUI, an HTTP Gateway, and an HTTP RPC API to control it.
- 89

goproxy
17.1Ksnail007/goproxy · Gogoproxy is a high-performance proxy server written in Go. A single binary handles HTTP(S), SOCKS5, SS, WebSocket, TCP and UDP proxying, plus TCP/UDP port forwarding and intranet penetration for exposing servers behind NAT.
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httprouter
17.1Kjulienschmidt/httprouter · GoHttpRouter is a lightweight, high performance HTTP request router (a multiplexer) for Go, built as an alternative to the default net/http mux.
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ky
17.1Ksindresorhus/ky · TypeScriptKy is a tiny, elegant HTTP client for JavaScript built on top of the Fetch API. It keeps fetch's model but adds retries, timeouts, JSON handling, progress events, and hooks — with zero dependencies.
- 92

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.
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ffuf
16.9Kffuf/ffuf · Goffuf is a fast web fuzzer written in Go — a command-line tool that sends many crafted requests to a target to discover directories, virtual hosts, and fuzzable GET/POST parameters.
- 94
how-web-works
16.8Kvasanthk/how-web-worksA detailed walkthrough of everything that happens behind the scenes between typing 'google.com' into a browser and the page rendering on screen, covering keyboard input, URL parsing, DNS, TLS, HTTP, and browser rendering internals.
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Arduino
16.7Kesp8266/Arduino · C++This is the ESP8266 core for the Arduino IDE. It brings support for the ESP8266 WiFi chip to the Arduino environment, so you can write sketches with familiar Arduino functions and run them directly on the ESP8266 without an external microcontroller.
- 96
chisel
16.7Kjpillora/chisel · GoChisel is a fast TCP/UDP tunnel transported over HTTP and secured via SSH — a single executable that runs as either client or server, mainly used for passing through firewalls or providing a secure endpoint into your network.
- 97

superagent
16.6Kforwardemail/superagent · JavaScriptSuperagent is a small, progressive HTTP request library with the same API in the browser and in Node.js, supporting many high-level HTTP client features.
- 98

aiohttp
16.6Kaio-libs/aiohttp · Pythonaiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP client and server framework built on asyncio: one Python package for making HTTP requests and for building web applications, with WebSockets supported out of the box.
- 99
Cloudflare-vless-trojan
16.6Kyonggekkk/Cloudflare-vless-trojan · JavaScriptScripts that deploy free VLESS-WS(TLS) and Trojan-WS(TLS) proxy nodes on Cloudflare Workers/Pages, plus a local Socks5/HTTP proxy script with ECH-TLS, normal TLS or no-TLS modes for devices like soft routers.
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hyper
16.4Khyperium/hyper · Rusthyper is an HTTP library for Rust. It ships both client and server APIs, supporting HTTP/1 and HTTP/2.
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