# spray/spray

A suite of scala libraries for building and consuming RESTful web services on top of Akka: lightweight, asynchronous, non-blocking, actor-based, testable

Repository: https://github.com/spray/spray
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/spray
Homepage: http://spray.io
Language: Scala
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2017-02-21T11:03:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5640, "days_push": 3480, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2493, forks 548 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:56.544696+00:00)

## What it is
spray is a suite of Scala libraries for building and consuming RESTful web services on top of Akka, designed to be lightweight, asynchronous, non-blocking, actor-based, and testable. It is no longer maintained and has been superseded by Akka HTTP; note that the spray.io domain now hosts an unrelated commercial influencer-marketing product, not this project.

## Use cases
- build a REST API in Scala on top of Akka
- consume RESTful web services from Scala asynchronously
- run a lightweight non-blocking HTTP server on Akka actors
- define HTTP routes with a Scala routing DSL
- test Scala REST endpoints
- maintain or read legacy code that depends on spray

## When to choose
- You are maintaining, extending, or reading an existing legacy Scala/Akka codebase already built on spray
- You need the historical source as a reference while planning a migration to Akka HTTP

## When to avoid
- Starting any new Scala HTTP or REST project - use Akka HTTP (or Apache Pekko HTTP) instead
- You need ongoing maintenance, security fixes, or compatibility with modern Scala and Akka versions
- You arrived from spray.io looking for the AI influencer gifting platform - that site is an unrelated commercial product, not this repository

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, http-server, http-client, routing, testing
- domain: web-development, backend, apis
- platform: jvm
- tags: scala, akka, rest, asynchronous, non-blocking, actor-based, unmaintained, superseded-by-akka-http, http

## Member repositories
- spray/spray (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:56.544696+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 2026-08-30T02:27:44.782759+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/spray/spray (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:56.544696+00:00, sha f6ad61e7e7c7)
  - homepage: http://spray.io (fetched 2026-08-29T10:09:35.350863+00:00, sha 356c117b6cce)
  - site_page: https://spray.io/en/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T10:09:35.353572+00:00, sha 1f203281f858)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.