I recommend Req. Has a ton of concise out of the box defaults, you generally don’t worry about the minutiae. It retries etc, all configurable but all with great defaults for your 99% cases.

Example:

Req.get!(req_url,
  headers: [
    {"user-agent",
     "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36"}
  ]
).body

I would recommend Finch, which is a layer on top of Mint. They are both fully written in Elixir, but I feel Mint is too low level if you want an easy to use API.

finch is pretty nice and allows you good control and branching on responses. It strikes a good balance between control and brevity IMO.

Many people started using req lately. I checked it out quickly and liked what I saw, though never tried it personally.

That being said, nowadays I’d use Tesla and pick an underlying HTTP client for it, which would be Finch. I simply like having the same dev experience everywhere where HTTP client is needed. Though that’s not an accepted fact, just my own preference.