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    #490 this week

    🌳 Tiny & elegant JavaScript HTTP client based on the Fetch API

    api
    fetch
    http-client
    http-request
    javascript
    js
    TypeScript
    MIT
    17.1K stars
    503 forks
    17.1K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 18, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #490 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 18%).

    2 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 9 days ago, with 120 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 45% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a tiny and elegant JavaScript HTTP client built on the Fetch API for making HTTP requests with enhanced features.
    • Offers a simpler API than fetch with built-in retries, timeout support, JSON handling, and TypeScript generics for safer and cleaner code.
    • Use for building type-safe REST API clients in modern JavaScript or TypeScript applications targeting browsers, Node.js, Bun, or Deno.
    • Use for implementing robust HTTP request retries with customizable backoff, jitter, and error handling in network-sensitive applications.
    • Use for creating modular HTTP clients with hooks to modify requests, responses, and errors for advanced workflows like token refresh or caching.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Ky is a tiny and elegant HTTP client based on the Fetch API

    Ky targets modern browsers, Node.js, Bun, and Deno.

    It's just a tiny package with no dependencies.

    Excerpt from the sindresorhus/ky README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    503+21

    Open issues

    0+0

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