seanmonstar/reqwest
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An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Client
12 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2017-08-02 · latest 2026-08-29
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…to see that the author of the library has a sensible take. Unfortunately the ecosystem does not: https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/blob/master/Cargo.tom...
comment by zamalek · 2025-01-23 · in C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us -
…client for use in most projects, but reqwest adds a much more approachable API on top of hyper. [0] https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/blob/master/Cargo.tom...
comment by jjice · 2024-12-22 · in Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust -
…flow. https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx sql interface for a variety of backend, async safe. https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest http client to make requests Rust is amazing, don't let the initial few speed bumps discourage you -…
comment by boredumb · 2023-04-11 · in Becoming Rustacean: Resources to Learn Rust Programming -
…opt out (of async) At least for reqwest it just wraps the async code in something like `block_on`: https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/blob/5397d2cf8eaecc9f... And as the sibling comment says, you can do that in your own code. It does…
comment by ReactiveJelly · 2022-07-16 · in Async Rust: What is a runtime? how Tokio works under the hood -
…because of the borrow checker? (Also, for those unfamiliar with it: reqwest is not a typo. See https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest )
comment by Someone · 2022-07-10 · in Beginner's guide to error handling in Rust -
It takes a couple of lines to call any API in Rust using reqwest: https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest I'm not sure where this 6 hours for matrix bot thingy comes from. A better comparison would be to write something from scratch or use…
comment by option_greek · 2021-12-23 · in My negative views on Rust -
…thereof) and that hopefully now that it's 1.0, we can have stable enough deps for a while :). [1] https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest/blob/5ee4fe5ab64a2e3d... [2] https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/01_getting_started/04...
comment by boulos · 2020-12-24 · in Tokio 1.0 – async runtime for Rust -
They probably meant reqwest ( https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest ), not request. Reqwest is maintained by the same developer (seanmonstar) as hyper, the de facto standard http library.
comment by nicoburns · 2019-08-22 · in Thoughts on Rust bloat -
Good client library https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest Could be used as async or as sync. Http/2 client and server https://github.com/carllerche/h2 Web framework https://github.com/actix/actix-web All of them has good quality and…
comment by fafhrd91 · 2018-01-14 · in Rust in 2018: easier to use -
Good news! The `reqwest`[0] library already exists and serves exactly that purpose. [0]: https://github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest
comment by jonreem · 2017-08-02 · in Announcing the `http` crate