# Request

🏊🏾 Simplified HTTP request client.

Repository: https://github.com/request/request
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/request
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-08-14T00:09:41+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5702, "days_push": 750, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 25512, forks 3145 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:38.205416+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: http-client
- domain: web-development, developer-tools, apis
- platform: -
- tags: deprecated, http, promises, streaming, oauth, legacy, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- request/request (main) score 32
- request/request-promise (plugin) score 32
- request/request-promise-native (plugin) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:38.205416+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 2026-08-29T16:56:02.643362+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/request/request (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:38.205416+00:00, sha 2474a0660942)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/request (fetched 2026-08-29T07:53:43.374513+00:00, sha be3de9ff00c1)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/request-promise (fetched 2026-08-29T07:53:43.377146+00:00, sha 8b6eb5132e92)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/request-promise-native (fetched 2026-08-29T07:53:43.379030+00:00, sha 04d3c0cc4aae)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.