Package
needle
The leanest and most handsome HTTP client in the Nodelands.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 12.2m
- +33% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 2
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 6 months ago
- v3.5.0
- GitHub stars
- 1.6k
- 237 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 81 / 3
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 19
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
12,239,865 downloads last week, 52,448,989 in the last month. The 12-month change of +33% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 3115 in total
- Latest version
- 3.5.0, 12 Mar 20266 months ago
- First published
- 11 Dec 2011
- Last push to GitHub
- 1 Jul 202686 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 81
- Open pull requests
- 3
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 19
- Dependents on npm
- 1,007
Major versions
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 27 Aug 2021
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 9 Aug 2017
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 2 Feb 2016
- v0 first release 0.1.0, 11 Dec 2011
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 3.5.0 | 12 Mar 2026 |
| 3.4.1 | 12 Mar 2026 |
| 3.4.0 | 12 Mar 2026 |
| 3.3.1 | 12 Dec 2023 |
| 3.3.0 | 8 Dec 2023 |
| 3.2.0 | 17 Nov 2022 |
| 3.1.0 | 7 Apr 2022 |
| 2.9.1 | 1 Sept 2021 |
| 3.0.0 | 27 Aug 2021 |
| 2.9.0 | 24 Aug 2021 |
| 2.8.0 | 7 Jul 2021 |
| 2.7.0 | 2 Jul 2021 |
| 2.6.0 | 7 Jan 2021 |
| 2.5.2 | 1 Sept 2020 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- None
- Node.js engine range
- >= 4.4.x
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 322 kB
- Dependencies (2)
saxiconv-lite
npm install needle- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/needle@3.5.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/needle@3.5.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/needle@3.5.0
Indexability: Indexed.