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essence/http
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Essence's HTTP client.

1.0.0(10y ago)8469.1k↑60.2%2[1 PRs](https://github.com/essence/http/pulls)3MITPHP

Since Jul 23Pushed 9y ago2 watchersCompare

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Essence HTTP
============

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[![Build status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/41edf03618b6357937a39af491a784e587bbe3f5ba35bb132a0774e210507774/687474703a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7472617669732f657373656e63652f687474702e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](http://travis-ci.org/essence/http)

The HTTP API used by [Essence](https://github.com/essence/essence).

###  Health Score

39

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LowBetter than 86% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity42

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3952d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![felixgirault](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1544510?v=4)](https://github.com/felixgirault "felixgirault (36 commits)")

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Tags

httpclient

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