node-formidable/formidable
The most used, flexible, fast and streaming parser for multipart form data. Supports uploading to serverless environments, AWS S3, Azure, GCP or the filesystem. Used in production. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
80/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 47
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 263.5
- age_days: 5962
- days_rel: 140
- days_push: 27
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
7178 stars · 688 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Formidable is a Node.js library for parsing multipart form data, especially file uploads, with fast streaming support. It can write uploads to the filesystem or stream them to cloud storage like AWS S3, Azure, or GCP, including serverless environments.
Use cases
- parse multipart form data in node.js
- handle file uploads in express
- stream file uploads directly to s3
- accept file uploads in aws lambda
- parse formdata from http requests
- upload files to azure blob storage
- parse querystrings from incoming requests
When to choose
- you need battle-tested multipart parsing in a Node.js server
- you want streaming uploads to cloud storage or serverless functions
- you need a widely used, production-proven file upload parser
When to avoid
- you are on deprecated v1/v2 - upgrade instead
- you want a minimal web-standards-only parser (try formidable-mini)
- you are not on Node.js
Facets
library · maturity active
file-upload parser http-server serialization web-development backend files apis serverless cloud multipart-formdata file-upload streaming-parser aws-s3 azure-storage gcp serverless querystring formdata nodejs web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/node-formidable/formidable · fetched 2026-08-28 · 23828195cfdd
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| node-formidable/formidable | main | 80 |
For agents
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