Simple and concise HTTP client library for Scala

Question

I need a mature HTTP client library that is idiomatic to scala, concise in usage, simple semantics. I looked at the Apache HTTP and the Scala Dispatch and numerous new libra

Answer 1

I've used Dispatch, Spray Client and the Play WS Client Library...None of them were simply to use or configure. So I created a simpler HTTP Client library which lets you perform all the classic HTTP requests in simple one-liners.

See an example:

import cirrus.clients.BasicHTTP.GET

import scala.concurrent.Await
import scala.concurrent.duration._

object MinimalExample extends App {

  val html = Await.result(Cirrus(GET("https://www.google.co.uk")), 3 seconds)

  println(html)
}

... produces ...

...

The library is called Cirrus and is available via Maven Central

libraryDependencies += "com.github.godis" % "cirrus_2.11" % "1.4.1"

The documentation is available on GitHub

https://github.com/Godis/Cirrus