earthboundkid/requests

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1669 stars · 61 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library providing a fluent, declarative builder API for making HTTP client requests, wrapping net/http to reduce boilerplate. It includes JSON helpers, automatic body closing, status code checking, and transport utilities for recording and replaying requests in tests.

Use cases

• make HTTP API calls from Go without net/http boilerplate
• fetch a URL into a string or JSON struct in a few lines
• POST JSON bodies to REST APIs
• record and replay HTTP requests in Go tests
• build custom HTTP transports with validators
• manage query parameters and URLs when calling APIs

When to choose

• you write Go CLI tools or services that make many HTTP API calls
• you want safe defaults like automatic body closing and status code checks
• you want a zero-dependency, standard-library-compatible client helper
• you need easy request recording/replaying for tests

When to avoid

• you need a full-featured client like advanced retries, circuit breaking, or observability out of the box
• you prefer sticking strictly to the standard library with no wrappers
• you are not working in Go

Facets

library · maturity stable

http-client testing developer-tools apis web-development go cross-platform fluent-api http-builder request-recorder zero-dependencies

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