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Unirest is an HTTP client library that simplifies making web requests across multiple programming languages. It provides a lightweight, unified interface for developers to send API calls and handle responses without… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Unirest launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Unsplash Source▲279

   A simple API for embedding hi-res Unsplash photos.

   2015 · source.unsplash.com · its alternatives →

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   Pump, a dead simple Pythonic abstraction of HTTP.▲118

   2011 · adeel.github.com · its alternatives →

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   Unify - Router▲304

   Hire AI colleagues you onboard just like real people

   2024 · unify.ai · its alternatives →

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   A simple Go web server with logging, tracing, health check▲318

   GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

   2018 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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   HTTP Prompt▲128

   An interactive command-line HTTP client

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework▲173

   2018 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →

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   URLify▲99

   Anonymous & secure URL shortener

   2019 · urlify.dev · its alternatives →

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   Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI▲115

   Hey HN, I built uncurl.dev to scratch my own itch: I kept getting curl commands in API docs, bug reports, or Slack messages and wanted a quick way to visualize, run, and debug them without firing up Postman or writing code to dissect them. It was also sometimes painful to create a test page specifically for non-tech users to consume an API. I originally vibe-coded this over a weekend just to make it easier for myself to debug API requests shared as curl commands. It slowly grew into something I found surprisingly useful in my workflow, so I decided to clean it up and share it. uncurl.dev…

   2025 · uncurl.dev · its alternatives →

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   http.js, a tiny AJAX utility▲15

   Make HTTP requests from client-side JavaScript. Contribute to wylst/http.js development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PullToRefresh.js▲119

    A small, but powerful JavaScript library crafted to power your webapp

    2016 · boxfactura.com · its alternatives →

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    Crudlet.js – A common, streamable interface for synchronizing data▲94

    utility library for async iterable iterators. Contribute to crcn/mesh.js development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Asynchronous HTTP/2 client for Python 2.7▲94

    Tornado HTTP/2 Client. Contribute to vladmunteanu/th2c development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Remult – a CRUD framework for full-stack TypeScript▲130

    Full-stack CRUD, simplified, with SSOT TypeScript entities - remult/remult

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    B64▲148

    A URL redirection service powered by vanilla JavaScript

    2018 · b64.me · its alternatives →

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    100 LOC Ruby forward proxy using only standard libraries▲115

    Minimal HTTP(S) forward proxy using 150LOC and only standard libraries. - jamesmoriarty/forward-proxy

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Karve▲71

    Not much to say. I work on windows, I hate postman, I need to manage bunch of .http files across multiple repositories. So I built a fast and native tool for myself and published it if you want to try it too. Any feedback would be nice, I really want it to be The obvious native Windows home for .http files

    Aug 2026 · karve.dev · its alternatives →

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    HTTPLang – a scripting language for making HTTP requests▲44

    A scripting langauge to do HTTP routines. . Contribute to f-prime/HTTPLang development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Swap.js – a JavaScript micro-framework (HTML fragments over the wire)▲127

    Hi HN! I created this lib in the need of a simple and tiny framework to easily do AJAX-style navigation / replacement of fragments in the page, in a web application. For people who don't want to use client-side-rendering and complex frameworks à la React, there are nowadays a few "HTML-over-the-wire" libraries, like HTMX, Unpoly or this super-tiny one Swap.js :) One other key thing is that no external tool is needed: no bundler, no webpack, no TypeScript compiler, no minification needed. Just write HTML, JS (+ your preferred server-side language: PHP, Python, etc.) and it works. The…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Go library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs▲50

    A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs - lithammer/shortuuid

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Automatic web page content extractor for Node.js and the command line▲94

    Automatically extract body content (and other cool stuff) from an html document - ageitgey/node-unfluff

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HTTP Documentation▲75

    HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) explained, with examples

    2023 · http.dev · its alternatives →

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    Apify SDK – A scalable web crawling and scraping library for JavaScript▲78

    Crawlee—A web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js to build reliable crawlers. In JavaScript and TypeScript. Extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG, or GPTs. Download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG, and other files from websites. Works with Puppeteer, Playwright, Cheerio, JSDOM, and raw HTTP. Both headf

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    httpinvoke – js HTTP client - easy progress events, binary files, etc.▲28

    A no-dependencies HTTP client library for browsers and Node.js with a promise-based or Node.js-style callback-based API to progress events, text and binary file upload and download, partial response body, request and response headers, status code. - jakutis/httpinvoke

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've built Routify, a global serverless API gateway▲8

    Hello HN, for the past couple of months I've been working on Routify and wanted to share the progress made so far and hopefully get your opinion/feedback on it. Routify is a global serverless API gateway which handles routing, authentication, rate limiting, load balancing, monitoring, transformation etc (with more coming soon). Routify makes it easier to manage and secure public APIs. It's distributed across many regions globally and acts as a proxy between your clients and your services. You can configure it through the interface in a matter of minutes (no code required). There are…

    2024 · routify.to · its alternatives →

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