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🌐 Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2015-12-07 · latest 2026-02-26

Mentions per year 11 mentions · busiest year 2020 (3)
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  1. I'd be more concerned about confusing it with https://github.com/sindresorhus/got , which is well-established (15k stars on GitHub is nothing to sneeze at).
    comment by pronik · 2026-02-26 · in Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go
  2. …https://github.com/vercel/ms https://github.com/sindresorhus/env-paths https://github.com/sindresorhus/got https://github.com/sindresorhus/is https://github.com/visionmedia/node-progress https://github.com/npm/node-semver https:/
    comment by CMay · 2025-09-20 · in Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks
  3. …compiler-accurate cross references for many repos. Some examples: - TypeScript: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sindresorhus/got/-/blob/s... - C: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/neovim/neovim/-/blob/src/... - C++:…
    comment by typesanitizer · 2022-05-08 · in Google is 2B lines of code and it's all in one place (2015)
  4. Is there support for timeouts? It's the main reason I use https://github.com/sindresorhus/got
    comment by ivanb · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js
  5. “got” has support for streaming. We have a migration guide for “request” users: https://github.com/sindresorhus/got/blob/master/documentatio...
    comment by mofle · 2020-02-18 · in Request Node lib used by 48k modules is now deprecated
  6. …w/ node-fetch but quickly moved to this. Its author is also prolific in the Node community. [1]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/got#comparison
    comment by cloverich · 2020-02-18 · in Request Node lib used by 48k modules is now deprecated
  7. Not identical but I am considering got because of nice docs and solid streaming support https://github.com/sindresorhus/got#comparison
    comment by lootsauce · 2020-02-18 · in Request Node lib used by 48k modules is now deprecated
  8. …new, alien syntax is worth it? Also found got [2], thoughts? [1] https://github.com/mikeal/bent [2] https://github.com/sindresorhus/got
    comment by namanyayg · 2019-04-08 · in Request’s Past, Present and Future
  9. …good things about it and its creator is awesome. I just use fetch because it does what I want. [1] https://github.com/sindresorhus/got
    comment by sotojuan · 2016-05-24 · in jQuery 3.0 Release Candidate
  10. …`files` property in package.json. Docs: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#files Example: https://github.com/sindresorhus/got/blob/2f5d5ba94d625802880...
    comment by mofle · 2015-12-07 · in Survey of popular Node.js packages reveals credential leaks