# earthboundkid/requests

HTTP requests for Gophers

Repository: https://github.com/earthboundkid/requests
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/earthboundkid-requests
Homepage: https://blog.carlana.net/post/2021/requests-golang-http-client/
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: golang, requests, http, http-client, convenience, helper
Last push: 2026-08-20T14:15:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 87/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 66, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1931, "days_push": 13, "days_rel": 13, "gap_med": 317.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1669, forks 61 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:19.939249+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: http-client, testing
- domain: developer-tools, apis, web-development
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: fluent-api, http-builder, request-recorder, zero-dependencies

## Member repositories
- earthboundkid/requests (main) score 87

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.939249+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:42:46.228469+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/earthboundkid/requests (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.939249+00:00, sha 99e99cc22357)
  - homepage: https://blog.carlana.net/post/2021/requests-golang-http-client/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:16:00.674657+00:00, sha d29decbcdb88)
  - site_page: https://carlana.net/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:16:00.684242+00:00, sha 46b8109f9f39)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.