This module is designed to be the lightest possible wrapper on top of node.js http
, but supporting:
- follows redirects
- automatically handles gzip/deflate responses
- supports HTTPS
- supports convenience
url
key so there's no need to useurl.parse
on the url when specifying options
All this in < 100 lines of code.
npm install simple-get
var 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
})
A more complex example:
var get = require('simple-get')
var concat = require('concat-stream')
get({
url: 'http://example.com',
maxRedirects: 3, // default value is 10
// 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.pipe(concat(function (data) {
// `data` is the decoded response, after it's been gunzipped or inflated
// (if applicable)
console.log('got the response: ' + data)
}))
})
MIT. Copyright (c) Feross Aboukhadijeh.