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lua-requests

HTTP requests made easy! Support for Basic Auth, Digest Auth. HTTP response parsing has never been easier!

$ luarocks install lua-requests

Similar to Requests for python.
The goal of lua-requests is to make HTTP simple and easy to use.
Currently Basic Authentication and Digest Authentication are supported.
Checkout the wiki on the github page for more details. Written in pure lua!

Versions

1.2-25 years ago23,721 downloads
1.2-17 years ago13,215 downloads
1.2-08 years ago12,361 downloads
1.1-110 years ago15,285 downloads
1.1-010 years ago274 downloads
1.0-011 years ago1,195 downloads

Dependencies

lua >= 5.1
LuaSec >= 0.5.1, < 0.8-1

Dependency for

adal-lua, code-stats.nvim, crayon, kong-auth-key-jwt-server, lua-mastodon, lua-myallocator, lua-payssion, lua-recaptcha, lua-resty-aws-email, lua-ssllabs, lua-twilio, Luark, tomba, web-driver, webscraper

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