The best Axios
alternatives.

Five ways to fetch more than static pages.

1. 01

   Zenrows

   Our pick

   Live extraction from any URL, including protected and dynamic pages, with fetch, extract (beta), and browser sessions as one toolkit. No request headers to tune.

   Best for · production web data, end to end

2. 02

   node-fetch

   A lightweight Fetch API implementation for Node.js. Closer to the browser's native fetch than Axios; no extra dependencies.

   Best for · lightweight HTTP in Node.js projects

3. 03

   got

   A feature-rich HTTP client for Node.js with retry logic, streams, and a clean promise-based API.

   Best for · robust HTTP with retries in Node.js

4. 04

   Playwright

   A browser automation library. Reaches JS-rendered pages that Axios cannot; useful when the page requires JavaScript execution.

   Best for · JS-rendered pages with a headless browser

5. 05

   Puppeteer

   A Node.js library for controlling headless Chrome. Handles JS-rendered pages and exposes the DOM for extraction.

   Best for · Chrome-based scraping in Node.js