The latest version of reqwest includes a bag of goodies, but the highlights are Response.json() and RedirectPolicy .

The first allows you to easily decode a JSON body into some other type. This type only needs to implement Deserialize , so you can use customs structs, but as you can see in the example, simple things work straight out of the box, like a HashMap .

let res = reqwest::get("http://httpbin.org/user-agent").unwrap(); let body: HashMap<String, String> = res.json().unwrap(); assert_eq!(body["user-agent"], "reqwest/0.2.0");

The second highlight, RedirectPolicy , improves on the handling of redirects in the default case, and allows you to create a powerful custom policy easily.