HTTP Client
Variants seen in the corpus:
HTTP ClientHttpClienthttp client
Providers using this tag (26)
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
Emerging 16 Early or largely undocumented
APIs with this tag (37)
Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →
Developing 12 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Microsoft Windows 10 HTTP Client APIThe HTTP Client API from Microsoft Windows 10 — 1 operation(s) for http client.make-request-js (Sideko Runtime)Modern TypeScript HTTP client for browser and Node.js environments, used as the runtime by Sideko-generated...make-request-py (Sideko Runtime)Modern Python HTTP client library with built-in authentication and response handling, used as the runtime b...Curl HTTP RequestMake a real HTTP request from the cloud and get back the status code, headers, and body instantly. Send an ...ExconEXtended HTTP(S) CONnections library focused on performance, persistent connections, and predictable behavi...FaradaySimple but flexible HTTP client library with a common interface over many adapters (Net::HTTP, Typhoeus, Pa...http.rbFast Ruby HTTP client built on the llhttp parser with a chainable request-building API, streaming bodies, p...HTTPartyHTTP client gem that "makes consuming RESTful web services dead easy" via a class-level DSL. Wraps Net::HTT...HTTPClientLong-standing Ruby HTTP client providing "the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby". Supports keep-al...Net::HTTP (Ruby Standard Library)The HTTP client class shipped with the Ruby standard library. Provides class and instance methods for GET, ...REST ClientSimple HTTP and REST client for Ruby inspired by Sinatra's microframework style. Provides class-level GET/P...TyphoeusLibcurl-based HTTP client built for running HTTP requests in parallel. Pairs well with Hydra for fan-out in...
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
RefitThe type-safe REST library for .NET that Refitter generates interfaces for. Refit turns REST APIs into live...Spring WebFlux HTTP Service ClientDeclarative HTTP service interface client allowing annotation-based HTTP client definitions with @HttpExcha...Spring WebFlux WebClientReactive, non-blocking HTTP client for consuming REST services and other APIs. Supports builder-based confi...
Emerging 20 Early or largely undocumented
WgetGNU Wget is a free command-line utility for non-interactive downloading of files from the web using HTTP, H...Wget2GNU Wget2 is the next-generation successor to GNU Wget, built from scratch around libwget. It is multi-thre...RequestsRequests is a simple and elegant HTTP library for Python, designed for human beings. It provides a clean, h...REST ClientREST Client is a Visual Studio Code extension for sending HTTP requests and viewing responses directly with...RestfoxRestfox is a lightweight, offline-first web HTTP client for testing REST APIs, similar to Postman but brows...RetrofitRetrofit is a type-safe HTTP client for the JVM that turns annotated Java/Kotlin interfaces into HTTP API c...RestSharpRestSharp is a simple REST and HTTP API client library for .NET, wrapping HttpClient with a fluent API for ...AxiosAxios is a promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js with automatic JSON data transformation an...Feign Apache HttpClientFeign Apache HttpClient module integrates Apache HttpComponents (HC5) as the underlying HTTP transport for ...Feign CoreFeign Core is the base library that processes annotated Java interfaces into templated HTTP requests. It de...Feign Java 11 HTTPFeign Java 11 HTTP module uses the JDK 11+ standard HttpClient as the transport, supporting HTTP/2 and asyn...Feign OkHttpFeign OkHttp module replaces the default JDK HTTP transport with Square's OkHttp client, adding HTTP/2, con...Node-Fetchnode-fetch is a lightweight module that brings the Fetch API to Node.js for making HTTP requests.Xh CLIxh is a friendly and fast command-line HTTP client written in Rust. It reimplements HTTPie's design with im...MilkmanMilkman is an extensible request/response workbench for various protocols like HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSock...GotGot is a human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js with support for streams, retries, an...HurlHurl is an open source command-line tool for running HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format, w...HTTP ClientJetBrains HTTP Client lets developers compose, edit, and execute HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket, and GraphQL request...libcurllibcurl is a free, easy-to-use, thread-safe, IPv6-compatible client-side URL transfer library written in C ...HTTPXHTTPX is a fully featured HTTP client library for Python 3 with sync and async APIs, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 su...
Score breakdown
Frequency
47.1
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
25.5
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor
Related tags
API Testing 7 co-occurrences
Clients 10 co-occurrences
Java 5 co-occurrences
SDK 6 co-occurrences
Open-Source 10 co-occurrences
Where this tag comes from
Provider tag19
Api tag36
Openapi tag2
Openapi op tag2
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 26 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged HTTP Client, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
26
all scored
Mean Kin Score
21.5
+0.8 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
6.6
-3.1 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
7.7–49
median 16.3 · σ 11.5
How the 26 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 0Developing 4Thin 3Emerging 16Minimal 3
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operational Transparency | 21.5 | 11.3 | +10.2 | 26 |
| Contract Governance | 11.1 | 6.4 | +4.7 | 26 |
| Contract Quality | 19.8 | 17.5 | +2.3 | 26 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 17.3 | 17.9 | -0.6 | 26 |
| Discoverability | 57.8 | 60.4 | -2.6 | 26 |
| Access Clarity | 17.2 | 22.3 | -5.1 | 26 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 4% | 16% | -12 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 0% | 7% | -7 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 0% | 9% | -9 |
| Security | 69% | 88% | -19 |
| Arazzo workflows | 4% | 2% | +2 |
| Governance rules | 50% | 13% | +37 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 Microsoft Windows 10 49
- 2 Sideko 41.8
- 3 _done 41
- 4 Ruby Programming Language and Popular API Gems 40.6
- 5 Apache HttpComponents 34.2
- 6 Refitter 34.1
- 7 Spring WebFlux 32.4
- 8 Wget 22.3
- 9 Requests 21.7
- 10 REST Client 21
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 _done 28.6
- 2 Microsoft Windows 10 19.8
- 3 Sideko 19.8
- 4 Apache HttpComponents 17.3
- 5 Ruby Programming Language and Popular API Gems 17.3
- 6 Spring WebFlux 16.5
- 7 Refitter 6.1
- 8 Requests 3.8
- 9 Axios 2.5
- 10 cURL 2.5
All 26 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
25 August 2026, across 26891
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
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