Request
🏊🏾 Simplified HTTP request client. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
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: n/a
- age_days: 5702
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 750
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
25512 stars · 3145 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Request is a simplified HTTP request client for Node.js supporting HTTPS, redirects, streaming, forms, OAuth signing, and proxies, with promise-based wrappers (request-promise, request-promise-native). It was fully deprecated in February 2020 and receives no further changes.
Use cases
- make http requests from node.js
- download a file over http and stream it to disk
- post form data or multipart uploads
- sign requests with oauth
- call an api through a proxy
- promise-based http client for node
When to choose
- maintaining a legacy codebase already built on request
- you need its specific OAuth 1.0 signing behavior in an old project
When to avoid
- starting any new Node.js project
- you need security fixes or ongoing maintenance
- modern promise/async-await-first HTTP clients are preferred
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
http-client web-development developer-tools apis deprecated http promises streaming oauth legacy nodejs javascript
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/request/request · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2474a0660942
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/request · fetched 2026-08-29 · be3de9ff00c1
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/request-promise · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8b6eb5132e92
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/request-promise-native · fetched 2026-08-29 · 04d3c0cc4aae
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| request/request | main | 32 |
| request/request-promise | plugin | 32 |
| request/request-promise-native | plugin | 32 |
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