# Niquests

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Niquests and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Drop-in replacement for requests that adds HTTP/3, async and multiplexing while keeping the familiar API. Critics raise trust concerns and note it is largely a one-man project.

## Why people recommend it

- Drop-in replacement for requests (5 comments): "It is a drop-in replacement for the Python requests library that focuses on bringing modern HTTP features to the familiar API we all know." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704781)) "The switch was surprisingly smooth. I think there's an official migration guide in the doc." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520558)) "which is a dropin replacement and imo wayyy better than httpx" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481787))
- Modern HTTP features like HTTP/3 and multiplexing (4 comments): "I wanted the beautiful, ergonomic API of requests, but I wanted it to speak the modern web and solve most seen struggles around HTTP consumption." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362465)) "It is a drop-in replacement for the Python requests library that focuses on bringing modern HTTP features to the familiar API we all know." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704781)) "multiplexing story in httpx is quite limited compared to what niquests offers out of the box" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520456))
- Seen as better than httpx (3 comments): "We have switched to niquests in my company and yes I can confirm that it's 10x better than httpx" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47516383)) "which is a dropin replacement and imo wayyy better than httpx" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481787)) "I feel like it has always been such a better package" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481821))
- Stable and actively developed (3 comments): "actively developed, supports all the things I mentioned above" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489615)) "Very stable actually. We've enabled it by default as such." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674472)) "the experience has been good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479894))

## What people warn about

- Trust and single-maintainer concerns (3 comments): "I opened an issue some time ago about them monkey patching urllib3, it was fixed than but I now see the issue has been outright deleted." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479700)) "the sponsorship subscription thing in the readme gives me vague rugpull vibes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47516020)) "niquest is something like a one-man-show, which is an issue-per-se" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481889))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Requests (Python library)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/requests.md): 23 recommend
- [Axios](https://hackerapproved.com/p/axios.md): 21 recommend
- [Go net/http](https://hackerapproved.com/p/go-net-http.md): 12 recommend
- [libcurl](https://hackerapproved.com/p/libcurl.md): 10 recommend
- [httpx](https://hackerapproved.com/p/httpx.md): 10 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Niquests", https://hackerapproved.com/p/niquests/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).