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- # simple-get [![travis][travis-image]][travis-url] [![npm][npm-image]][npm-url] [![downloads][downloads-image]][downloads-url] [![javascript style guide][standard-image]][standard-url]
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-
- ### Simplest way to make http get requests
-
- ## features
-
- This module is the lightest possible wrapper on top of node.js `http`, but supporting these essential features:
-
- - follows redirects
- - automatically handles gzip/deflate responses
- - supports HTTPS
- - supports specifying a timeout
- - supports convenience `url` key so there's no need to use `url.parse` on the url when specifying options
- - composes well with npm packages for features like cookies, proxies, form data, & OAuth
-
- All this in < 100 lines of code.
-
- ## install
-
- ```
- npm install simple-get
- ```
-
- ## usage
-
- Note, all these examples also work in the browser with [browserify](http://browserify.org/).
-
- ### simple GET request
-
- Doesn't get easier than this:
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
-
- get('http://example.com', function (err, res) {
- if (err) throw err
- console.log(res.statusCode) // 200
- res.pipe(process.stdout) // `res` is a stream
- })
- ```
-
- ### even simpler GET request
-
- If you just want the data, and don't want to deal with streams:
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
-
- get.concat('http://example.com', function (err, res, data) {
- if (err) throw err
- console.log(res.statusCode) // 200
- console.log(data) // Buffer('this is the server response')
- })
- ```
-
- ### POST, PUT, PATCH, HEAD, DELETE support
-
- For `POST`, call `get.post` or use option `{ method: 'POST' }`.
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
-
- const opts = {
- url: 'http://example.com',
- body: 'this is the POST body'
- }
- get.post(opts, function (err, res) {
- if (err) throw err
- res.pipe(process.stdout) // `res` is a stream
- })
- ```
-
- #### A more complex example:
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
-
- get({
- url: 'http://example.com',
- method: 'POST',
- body: 'this is the POST body',
-
- // simple-get accepts all options that node.js `http` accepts
- // See: http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_request_options_callback
- headers: {
- 'user-agent': 'my cool app'
- }
- }, function (err, res) {
- if (err) throw err
-
- // All properties/methods from http.IncomingResponse are available,
- // even if a gunzip/inflate transform stream was returned.
- // See: http://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_http_incomingmessage
- res.setTimeout(10000)
- console.log(res.headers)
-
- res.on('data', function (chunk) {
- // `chunk` is the decoded response, after it's been gunzipped or inflated
- // (if applicable)
- console.log('got a chunk of the response: ' + chunk)
- }))
-
- })
- ```
-
- ### JSON
-
- You can serialize/deserialize request and response with JSON:
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
-
- const opts = {
- method: 'POST',
- url: 'http://example.com',
- body: {
- key: 'value'
- },
- json: true
- }
- get.concat(opts, function (err, res, data) {
- if (err) throw err
- console.log(data.key) // `data` is an object
- })
- ```
-
- ### Timeout
-
- You can set a timeout (in milliseconds) on the request with the `timeout` option.
- If the request takes longer than `timeout` to complete, then the entire request
- will fail with an `Error`.
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
-
- const opts = {
- url: 'http://example.com',
- timeout: 2000 // 2 second timeout
- }
-
- get(opts, function (err, res) {})
- ```
-
- ### One Quick Tip
-
- It's a good idea to set the `'user-agent'` header so the provider can more easily
- see how their resource is used.
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
- const pkg = require('./package.json')
-
- get('http://example.com', {
- headers: {
- 'user-agent': `my-module/${pkg.version} (https://github.com/username/my-module)`
- }
- })
- ```
-
- ### Proxies
-
- You can use the [`tunnel`](https://github.com/koichik/node-tunnel) module with the
- `agent` option to work with proxies:
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
- const tunnel = require('tunnel')
-
- const opts = {
- url: 'http://example.com',
- agent: tunnel.httpOverHttp({
- proxy: {
- host: 'localhost'
- }
- })
- }
-
- get(opts, function (err, res) {})
- ```
-
- ### Cookies
-
- You can use the [`cookie`](https://github.com/jshttp/cookie) module to include
- cookies in a request:
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
- const cookie = require('cookie')
-
- const opts = {
- url: 'http://example.com',
- headers: {
- cookie: cookie.serialize('foo', 'bar')
- }
- }
-
- get(opts, function (err, res) {})
- ```
-
- ### Form data
-
- You can use the [`form-data`](https://github.com/form-data/form-data) module to
- create POST request with form data:
-
- ```js
- const fs = require('fs')
- const get = require('simple-get')
- const FormData = require('form-data')
- const form = new FormData()
-
- form.append('my_file', fs.createReadStream('/foo/bar.jpg'))
-
- const opts = {
- url: 'http://example.com',
- body: form
- }
-
- get.post(opts, function (err, res) {})
- ```
-
- #### Or, include `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` form data manually:
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
-
- const opts = {
- url: 'http://example.com',
- form: {
- key: 'value'
- }
- }
- get.post(opts, function (err, res) {})
- ```
-
- ### Specifically disallowing redirects
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
-
- const opts = {
- url: 'http://example.com/will-redirect-elsewhere',
- followRedirects: false
- }
- // res.statusCode will be 301, no error thrown
- get(opts, function (err, res) {})
- ```
-
- ### OAuth
-
- You can use the [`oauth-1.0a`](https://github.com/ddo/oauth-1.0a) module to create
- a signed OAuth request:
-
- ```js
- const get = require('simple-get')
- const crypto = require('crypto')
- const OAuth = require('oauth-1.0a')
-
- const oauth = OAuth({
- consumer: {
- key: process.env.CONSUMER_KEY,
- secret: process.env.CONSUMER_SECRET
- },
- signature_method: 'HMAC-SHA1',
- hash_function: (baseString, key) => crypto.createHmac('sha1', key).update(baseString).digest('base64')
- })
-
- const token = {
- key: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN,
- secret: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
- }
-
- const url = 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/home_timeline.json'
-
- const opts = {
- url: url,
- headers: oauth.toHeader(oauth.authorize({url, method: 'GET'}, token)),
- json: true
- }
-
- get(opts, function (err, res) {})
- ```
-
- ### Throttle requests
-
- You can use [limiter](https://github.com/jhurliman/node-rate-limiter) to throttle requests. This is useful when calling an API that is rate limited.
-
- ```js
- const simpleGet = require('simple-get')
- const RateLimiter = require('limiter').RateLimiter
- const limiter = new RateLimiter(1, 'second')
-
- const get = (opts, cb) => limiter.removeTokens(1, () => simpleGet(opts, cb))
- get.concat = (opts, cb) => limiter.removeTokens(1, () => simpleGet.concat(opts, cb))
-
- var opts = {
- url: 'http://example.com'
- }
-
- get.concat(opts, processResult)
- get.concat(opts, processResult)
-
- function processResult (err, res, data) {
- if (err) throw err
- console.log(data.toString())
- }
- ```
-
- ## license
-
- MIT. Copyright (c) [Feross Aboukhadijeh](http://feross.org).
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