In addition to what others have said, reqwest is notorious for being one of the more heavy-weight HTTP libraries, but luckily, it's far from the only option: ht

In addition to what others have said, reqwest is notorious for being one of the more heavy-weight HTTP libraries, but luckily, it's far from the only option: https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/http-clients/ https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/http-clients/