sttp: the Scala HTTP client you always wanted!
This is the development version of the upcoming sttp client 4. For the current stable version, see sttp 3 on GitHub and its documentation.
Welcome!
sttp client is an open-source library which provides a clean, programmer-friendly API to describe HTTP requests and how to handle responses. Requests are sent using one of the backends, which wrap lower-level Scala or Java HTTP client implementations. The backends can integrate with a variety of Scala stacks, providing both synchronous and asynchronous, procedural and functional interfaces.
Backend implementations include the HTTP client that is shipped with Java, as well as ones based on akka-http, pekko-http, http4s, OkHttp. They integrate with Akka, Monix, fs2, cats-effect, scalaz and ZIO. Supported Scala versions include 2.12, 2.13 and 3, Scala.JS and Scala Native; supported Java versions include 11+.
Here’s a quick example of sttp client in action:
import sttp.client4._
val query = "http language:scala"
val sort: Option[String] = None
// the `query` parameter is automatically url-encoded
// `sort` is removed, as the value is not defined
val request = basicRequest.get(
uri"https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=$query&sort=$sort")
val backend = DefaultSyncBackend()
val response = request.send(backend)
// response.header(...): Option[String]
println(response.header("Content-Length"))
// response.body: by default read into an Either[String, String]
// to indicate failure or success
println(response.body)
For more examples, see the usage examples section. To start using sttp client in your project, see the quickstart. Or, browse the documentation to find the topics that interest you the most! ScalaDoc is available at https://www.javadoc.io.
Other sttp projects
sttp is a family of Scala HTTP-related projects, and currently includes:
sttp client: this project
sttp tapir: Typed API descRiptions
sttp model: simple HTTP model classes (used by client & tapir)
sttp shared: shared web socket, FP abstractions, capabilities and streaming code.
sttp apispec: OpenAPI, AsyncAPI and JSON Schema models.
Third party projects:
sttp-oauth2: OAuth2 client library for Scala
sttp openai: Scala client wrapper for OpenAI (and OpenAI-compatible) API. Use the power of ChatGPT inside your code!
Try sttp client in your browser!
Sponsors
Development and maintenance of sttp client is sponsored by SoftwareMill, a software development and consulting company. We help clients scale their business through software. Our areas of expertise include backends, distributed systems, machine learning, platform engineering and data analytics.
Commercial Support
We offer commercial support for sttp and related technologies, as well as development services. Contact us to learn more about our offer!
Table of contents
- Quickstart
- How sttp client works
- Goals of the project
- Community
- Usage examples
- Use the simple synchronous client
- POST a form using the synchronous backend
- GET and parse JSON using the akka-http backend and json4s
- GET and parse JSON using the ZIO http-client backend and circe
- GET and parse JSON using the http-client Monix backend and circe, treating deserialization errors as failed effects
- Log requests & responses using slf4j
- POST and serialize JSON using the Monix http-client backend and circe
- Test an endpoint which requires multiple query parameters
- Open a websocket using ZIO
- Open a websocket using FS2 streams
- Test Monix websockets
- Open a websocket using Akka
- Open a websocket using Pekko
- Open a websocket using Monix
- Stream request and response bodies using fs2
- Stream request and response bodies using zio-stream
- Retry a request using ZIO
- GET parsed and raw response bodies