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Libraries, frameworks, tools, and SDKs used by the apps in this directory — scored the same way as the apps themselves.

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92Health
Library npm

undici

A fast, spec-compliant HTTP/1.1 client for Node.js, built from scratch with zero runtime dependencies

7,695
MIT
Used by 70
92Health
Library PyPI

Pillow

The friendly PIL fork that adds image processing capabilities to Python

13,812
Other
Used by 60
93Health
Library PyPI

urllib3

A powerful, user-friendly HTTP client for Python with thread-safe connection pooling, TLS verification, and retry handling.

4,058
MIT
Used by 48
68Health
Library npm

proxy-agent

Maps HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS, and PAC proxy protocols to the correct Node.js http.Agent implementation automatically.

1,161
MIT
Used by 47
92Health
SDK npm

@clickhouse/client

The official TypeScript client for connecting Node.js applications to ClickHouse over HTTP.

331
Apache 2.0
Used by 38
52Health
Library PyPI

asyncpg

A fast PostgreSQL database client library for Python built directly on asyncio, implementing the PostgreSQL binary wire protocol natively for high-throughput async applications.

8,088
Apache 2.0
Used by 26
84Health
Library npm

http-proxy-middleware

The one-liner Node.js proxy middleware for connect, express, next.js, hono, and more.

11,126
MIT
Used by 20
48Health
Library npm

forge

A native, pure-JavaScript implementation of TLS and PKI cryptography for building crypto-based Node.js and browser apps.

5,331
Other
Used by 17
84Health
Library npm

got

Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js, with retries, streams, pagination, and RFC 7234 caching built in.

14,940
MIT
Used by 15
91Health
Framework Go

Echo

A minimalist, high-performance Go web framework with a radix-tree router, built-in middleware chain, and first-class HTTP/2 support.

32,705
MIT
Used by 13
83Health
Library PyPI

pyparsing

Build recursive-descent parsers in Python without a separate grammar file

2,489
MIT
Used by 11
69Health
Tool npm

@vitejs/plugin-basic-ssl

A Vite plugin that generates a self-signed certificate so your dev and preview servers can run over HTTPS with zero setup.

516
MIT
Used by 8
55Health
Library npm

superagent

A small, progressive HTTP request library for Node.js and browsers with a single fluent, chainable API on both platforms.

16,637
MIT
Used by 7
84Health
Library PyPI

opencv-python

Pre-built, pip-installable OpenCV bindings that give Python programs full computer vision and image-processing capabilities without compiling from source.

5,388
MIT
Used by 7
72Health
Library Cargo

ureq

A simple, safe, blocking HTTP client for Rust with minimal dependencies.

2,190
Apache 2.0
Used by 7
50Health
Library npm

follow-redirects

A drop-in replacement for Node's http and https modules that transparently follows redirects with zero runtime dependencies.

580
MIT
Used by 7
74Health
Library Go

certmagic

Automatic HTTPS for Go programs — the production-grade ACME client library that powers Caddy, obtaining and renewing TLS certificates with zero manual cert management.

5,598
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
73Health
Library PyPI

OAuthLib

Generic, spec-compliant OAuth1, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect implementation for Python

2,980
BSD 3
Used by 6
43Health
Library Go

gock

Versatile HTTP traffic mocking for Go, intercepting any net/http-based client for deterministic tests.

2,217
MIT
Used by 5
52Health
SDK npm

@neondatabase/serverless

Neon's serverless PostgreSQL driver for JavaScript and TypeScript, built for edge and serverless runtimes using HTTP and WebSockets instead of raw TCP.

548
MIT
Used by 5
91Health
Library PyPI

kombu

A Python messaging library giving Celery and other apps one high-level API over AMQP, Redis, SQS, and a dozen other broker transports.

3,142
BSD 3
Used by 4
66Health
SDK PyPI

arxiv.py

A typed Python client for the arXiv API, handling pagination, retries, and Atom feed parsing.

1,544
MIT
Used by 4
42Health
Library npm

request-promise

A Bluebird-powered Promise wrapper around the request HTTP client for Node.js — deprecated since 2020 along with request itself.

4,714
Other
Used by 3
74Health
Library npm

http-cookie-agent

Adds tough-cookie-based cookie jar support to Node.js global fetch, undici, axios, node-fetch, and other HTTP clients.

53
MIT
Used by 3

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