ninenines/cowboy

ninenines/cowboy has 7,521 GitHub stars and 1,172 forks. GitHot measured +1 stars in 24 hours, 0 in 7 days, and +2 in 15 days. Last checked 2026-11-08 20:53 UTC. Last push 2026-10-15.

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Small, fast, modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.

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= Cowboy

Cowboy is a small, fast and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.

== Goals

Cowboy aims to provide a complete HTTP stack in a small code base. It is optimized for low latency and low memory usage, in part because it uses binary strings.

Cowboy provides routing capabilities, selectively dispatching requests to handlers written in Erlang.

Because it uses Ranch for managing connections, Cowboy can easily be embedded in any other application.

Cowboy is clean and well tested Erlang code.

== Online documentation

https://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/2.20/guide[User guide]
https://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/2.20/manual[Function reference]

== Offline documentation

While still online, run make docs
User guide available in doc/ in PDF and HTML formats
Function reference man pages available in doc/man3/ and doc/man7/
Run make install-docs to install man pages on your system
Full documentation in Asciidoc available in doc/src/
Examples available in examples/

== Getting help

https://discord.gg/x25nNq2fFE[Discord server]
https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/issues[Issues tracker]
https://github.com/sponsors/essen[Sponsor me!]

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