Making HTTP requests in Rust with Reqwest
Blog post from LogRocket
Rust's Reqwest library is a tool for making HTTP requests, enabling developers to fetch and manipulate resources using asynchronous programming. The tutorial demonstrates building a Spotify search client using Reqwest, highlighting how to make GET and POST requests, authenticate using headers, and parse JSON responses into Rust's type-safe structs with Serde. The example uses the Spotify API to illustrate how to handle different HTTP status codes, match on responses, and deserialize data into structured formats. The process includes setting up a Rust project with dependencies such as Reqwest and Tokio for asynchronous functionality, and Serde for JSON serialization. The tutorial further explores creating a command-line interface (CLI) client that processes search queries, ultimately showcasing how Reqwest simplifies handling HTTP requests in Rust applications. Additionally, it introduces LogRocket as a tool for monitoring and debugging Rust applications, which can help improve user experience by capturing logs, errors, and network requests for better debugging insights.