tiny_request

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Tiny module for http requests with no dependencies

Install

npm install tiny_request

Simple to use

var req = require('tiny_request')

req.get('http://google.com', function(body, response, err){
	if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {  
		console.log(body) 
	} 
})

Examples

• JSON
• GET
• POST Multipart
• POST Froms
• Custom HTTP Headers
• Stream
• Timeout

JSON

To automatically parse JSON you just need to pass JSON parameter.

Example:

req.get({ url: 'http://test.com/json', json: true}, function(body, response, err){
	if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {  
		console.log(body) //body now is parsed JSON object
	} 
})

GET

req.get({ url: 'http://test.com', query: { test: 'test' }}, function(body, response, err){
	if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {  
		console.log(body) 
	} 
})

Where query is GET parameters object

Also you can pass port parameter, for example:

req.get({ url: 'http://test.com', port: 8080}, function(body, response, err){
	if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {  
		console.log(body) 
	} 
})

POST Multipart

var data = {
	image: {
		value: fs.createReadStream('photo.png'), 
		filename: 'photo.png',
		contentType: 'image/png'			
	},
	test: 'test'
}

req.post({
	url: 'http://test.com',
	query: { test: 'test' },
 	multipart: data 
}, function(body, response, err){
	if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {  
		console.log(body) 
	} 
})

POST Forms

var form = {
	test: 'test'
}

req.post({ url: 'http://test.com', form: form}, function(body, response, err){
	if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {  
		console.log(body) 
	} 
})

POST Json

var data = {
	test: 'test'
}

req.post({ url: 'http://test.com', jsonData: data}, function(body, response, err){
	if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {  
		console.log(body) 
	} 
})

Custom HTTP Headers

var headers = {
	'Test-Header': 'test'
}

req.post({ url: 'http://test.com', headers: headers}, function(body, response, err){
	if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {  
		console.log(body) 
	} 
})

Stream

req.get({url: url, pipe: stream}) 

Timeout

req.get({url: url, timeout: 1000})

Request will be aborted after 1 second if there is no response from server