capped-fetch
Node fetch with hard size, compression-ratio and time limits. Stops gzip bombs mid-stream.
Details
- External ID
- 1381282828
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- capped-fetch
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 74
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8921983089930823
- Tags
- dos, fetch, gzip-bomb, http, nodejs, security, typescript, zero-dependencies
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 10:54 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- node fetch wrapper with size and compression limits
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a focused Node.js wrapper around fetch/streams that monitors byte counters and decompression ratios in real time to prevent zip bombs, easily built with AI assistance in a few hours.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 93 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 94 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Rapel · hn · 2026-05-26 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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- Cachekit · hn · 2026-01-14 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Capn-hook for coding agents · hn · 2026-07-12 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Local Transfer · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- KVBoost · hn · 2026-05-22 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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