diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
index aafef048d..2bba0b895 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ All definitions files include a header with the author and editors, so at some p
 * [msgpack.js](https://github.com/uupaa/msgpack.js) (by [Shinya Mochizuki](https://github.com/enrapt-mochizuki))
 * [Mustache.js](https://github.com/janl/mustache.js) (by [Boris Yankov](https://github.com/borisyankov))
 * [nconf](https://github.com/flatiron/nconf) (by [Jeff Goddard](https://github.com/jedigo))
+* [needle](https://github.com/tomas/needle) (by [San Chen](https://github.com/bigsan))
 * [noble](https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble) (by [Seon-Wook Park](https://github.com/swook))
 * [nock](https://github.com/pgte/nock) (by [bonnici](https://github.com/bonnici))
 * [Node.js](http://nodejs.org/) (from TypeScript samples)
diff --git a/needle/needle-tests.ts b/needle/needle-tests.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70c88933c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/needle/needle-tests.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+/// <reference path="needle.d.ts" />
+
+import needle = require("needle");
+
+var url = "";
+var options = {};
+var callback = (err, resp) => {};
+
+needle.head(url, options, callback);
+needle.get(url, options, callback);
+needle.post(url, data, options, callback);
+needle.put(url, data, options, callback);
+needle.delete(url, data, options, callback);
+needle.request(method, url, data, options, callback);
diff --git a/needle/needle.d.ts b/needle/needle.d.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..732f5a059
--- /dev/null
+++ b/needle/needle.d.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// Type definitions for needle 0.7.8
+// Project: https://github.com/tomas/needle
+// Definitions by: San Chen <https://github.com/bigsan>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
+
+interface INeedle {
+	head(url: string): IReadableStream;
+	head(url: string, callback?: Function): IReadableStream;
+	head(url: string, options?: any, callback?: Function): IReadableStream;
+
+}
+
+declare module "needle" {
+	var needle: INeedle;
+    export = needle;
+}