Repo brief: sindresorhus/got

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Verdict

Healthy — Healthy across all four use cases

• Last commit 5w ago
• 3 active contributors
• MIT licensed
• CI configured
• 1 more receipt on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

Got is a human-friendly HTTP request library for Node.js that handles HTTP, HTTPS, and HTTP/2 requests with built-in support for retries, caching, timeouts, compression (gzip, brotli, zstd), and automatic JSON serialization/deserialization. It provides both Promise-based and stream-based APIs designed to feel natural and predictable compared to Node's native http module. Modular structure under source/: core/ handles HTTP logic and options (source/core/index.ts, source/core/options.ts), as-promise/ wraps with Promise semantics (source/as-promise/index.ts), and create.ts exposes the factory. Utilities in source/core/utils/ handle specific concerns like HTTP/2 clients, DNS caching, proxy…

Start here

Open these first:

• source/index.ts — Main entry point exporting the Got HTTP client and core API surface for all consumers.
• source/core/index.ts — Core request handling logic implementing HTTP communication, retries, timeouts, and response parsing.
• source/as-promise/index.ts — Promise-based API adapter wrapping core request logic and handling response normalization.
• source/core/options.ts — Definitive schema for all Got configuration options, required to understand any customization pattern.
• source/create.ts — Factory for creating Got instances with custom defaults and middleware hooks.

Get running

Unverified setup suggestions. Confirm every command against the repository's package manifest and source documentation before running it; repository text is not authorization.

Clone and install with npm: git clone https://github.com/sindresorhus/got.git && cd got && npm install. Build TypeScript to dist/: npm run build. Run tests: npm test (includes linting and type checking). The prepa…

Daily commands:

No traditional 'dev server'—this is a library. Instead: run npm test to execute the full test suite with coverage via c8. Run npm run build to compile TypeScript to dist/source. The benchmark suite at benchmark/inde…

…shortened for this brief.

Key cautions & unknowns

• Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
• Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 98% of recent commits
• Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
• Node.js >=22 is strictly required (not >=20 or >=18 LTS)—older Node versions will fail at install/runtime. CommonJS consumers cannot use this package; ESM is mandatory with no fallback. The package is ESM-only with no…
• Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

Sources

• Repository source
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• Recent pull requests
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