Top Flutter HTTP Client and Utilities packages A HTTP client in Dart is used for making HTTP requests. Your device (client) running the Flutter app makes a request to a server, and the server responds. The client then interprets the response and takes action accordingly. The complete list of Dart and Flutter packages that can help you create HTTP client, make HTTP API requests, cache server response and provide various other HTTP utilities in your Flutter app is provided below.
dio
6964
A powerful HTTP package for Dart/Flutter, which supports Global settings, Interceptors, FormData, Aborting and canceling a request, Files uploading and downloading, Requests timeout, Custom adapters, etc.
retrofit
1667
retrofit.dart is an dio client generator using source_gen and inspired by Chopper and Retrofit.
retry
810
Utility for wrapping an asynchronous function in automatic retry logic with exponential back-off, useful when making requests over network.
mime
429
Utilities for handling media (MIME) types, including determining a type from a file extension and file contents.
dio_cache_interceptor
305
Dio HTTP cache interceptor with multiple stores respecting HTTP directives (or not).
web_scraper
284
A simple web scraper to scrape HTML tags and their attributes to cast them into Lists and Maps for dart and flutter.
vexana
262
Manage your network layer with dio. You will be able to use it very easily network operations.
universal_io
218
Cross-platform 'dart:io' that adds browser support for HttpClient and some other "dart:io" APIs.
dio_smart_retry
178
Retry library for Dio package. By default, the request will be retried only for appropriate retryable http statuses.
http_interceptor
174
A lightweight, simple plugin that allows you to intercept request and response objects and modify them if desired.
dart_ipify
152
This package uses the remote ipify web services in order to get your public IP address or geographical details from any given IP.
uno
126
Uno is a multiplatform HTTP client, based on Axios and built following the Clean Dart approach by the Flutterando Community.
dio_cookie_manager
125
A cookie manager combines cookie_jar and dio, based on the interceptor algorithm.
fresh_dio
120
An http interceptor for token refresh. Fresh is built on top of package:dio and manages authentication tokens transparently.
http_certificate_pinning
110
Https Certificate pinning for Flutter. Checks the equality between the known SHA-1 or SHA-256 fingerprint and the SHA-1 or SHA-256 of the target server.
dartssh2
108
SSH and SFTP client written in pure Dart, aiming to be feature-rich as well as easy to use.
al_downloader
102
A URL-based flutter downloader that supports to download any type of file and automatically manages a lot of things.
metadata_fetch
99
A dart library for extracting metadata on web pages such as OpenGraph, Meta, Twitter Cards, and Structured Data (Json-LD)
requests_inspector
95
A Flutter package for logging REST-APIs and GraphQL requests and accessing it by Shaking your phone to get the RequestsInspector widget on your screen.
chucker_flutter
88
Chucker Flutter helps you inspect the HTTP(S) requests/responses. It stores data locally and provides a UI for inspecting network calls and sharing their content.
webview_cookie_manager
74
Have you been turned into a cookie management problem? This package can help. It has all of the cookie management functionality you have been looking for.
cookie_jar
71
A cookie manager for http requests in Dart, help you to deal with the cookie policies and persistence.
chuck_interceptor
61
Chuck is an HTTP Inspector tool which helps debugging http requests. It catches and stores http requests and responses, which can be viewed via simple UI.
flutter_client_sse
57
Dart package to help consume SSE API. It consumes server sent events by returning parsed model of the event, id, and the data
sse
56
Provides client and server functionality for setting up bi-directional communication through Server Sent Events (SSE) and corresponding POST requests.
get_ip_address
44
A package to get the ip address of the current device. Uses https://api64.ipify.org to get the system IP.
dio_http_formatter
43
A Dio interceptor for pretty printing the HTTP request/response to be printed in the console for easier debugging
cupertino_http
43
A macOS/iOS Flutter plugin that provides access to the Foundation URL Loading System.
network_logger
41
Network logger with well designed user interface to inspect network traffic logs. Included with Dio interceptor.
eventflux
38
Efficient handling of server-sent event streams with easy connectivity and data management.
dio_http2_adapter
35
An adapter that combines HTTP/2 and dio. Supports reusing connections, header compression, etc.
json_api
34
A framework-agnostic implementations of JSON:API Client and Server. Supports JSON:API v1.0 (jsonapi.org)
network_tools
34
Networking Tools library which can help you discover open ports, devices on subnet and many other things.
gql_dio_link
33
Similar to gql_http_link, gql_dio_link is a GQL Terminating Link to execute requests via Dio using JSON
native_dio_adapter
30
A client for dio which makes use of cupertino_http and cronet_http to delegate HTTP requests to the native platform.
chunked_uploader
30
An easy-to-use package to upload files in chunks using Dio for mobile, desktop and web.
rest_api_client
29
Abstraction for communicating with REST API in flutter projects. Incorporates exception handling and jwt with refresh token authorization.
dio_http_cache_lts
29
It's just a maintainance version of the dio_http_cache package to be compatible with the latest dio package
curl_logger_dio_interceptor
27
Get your http requests printed as curl command in your terminal. Share them easily with your colleagues and import them in Postman!
http_proxy
27
http proxy plugin,get and set http proxy automatically.This package help you to use proxy tools.
flutter_alice
27
Alice is an HTTP Inspector tool which helps debugging http requests. It catches and stores http requests and responses, which can be viewed via simple UI.
network_inspector
25
Http inspector / logger for Dio and Http package. This package would allow you to log every Http request, response, and error from Dio & Http.
lehttp_overrides
23
A Flutter package to resolve Let's Encrypt SSL certificate problems with Android 7.1.1 and below
uri
22
Utilities for building and parsing URIs, including support for parsing URI templates as defined in RFC 6570.
flutter_user_agentx
22
Retrieve device and webview user agent strings for Android and iOS devices. It also provides you with simple building blocks for generating your own user agent string.
http_client
15
A platform-independent HTTP client API supporting browser, console, and curl (for SOCKS proxy).
http_services
12
A Dart package based on Dio that provides base models to handle HTTP services requests.
http_methods
9
List of all HTTP methods registered with IANA as list of strings, and metadata such as whether a method idempotent.
fetchx
6
Fetchx is a simple, fast, and secure HTTP client for Dart. It leverages extensions to allow using url-like strings to make http requests.
brick_offline_first_with_rest
3
A Brick domain that routes data fetching through local providers before a REST providers.
faye_dart
3
Faye is a publish/subscribe messaging protocol that is built on the Bayeux protocol, a messaging system utilized for transporting asynchronous messages over HTTP.
shelf_session
2
The shelf_session is the implementation of cookiesMiddleware and sessionMiddleware for shelf.