Native Request

v1.1 has been released

Native Request is a simple module that makes you create native node.js requests supports https.

• supports HTTPS
• 0 dependencies
• use callbacks

Table of Contents

Installation
Usage

Planned features

• 1.2.0: Proxy management

Installation

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

npm install native-request

Usage

JSON request (recommended)

• request.request(options, callback)

Easy

let request = require('native-request');

request.request({
        url: "http://github.com/",
        method: 'POST',
    }, function(err, data, status, headers) {
        console.log(status); //200
        console.log(data); // page content
        console.log(headers); // response headers
});

Full

let request = require('native-request');

request.request({
        url: "http://github.com/",
        method: 'POST',
        Cookies: { john: "doe", human: true },
        headers: {
            authorization: "Token121"
        },
        requestOptions: {
            followRedirect: false,
            maxRedirect: 1,
            trustRedirect: false
        }

    }, function(err, data, status, headers) {
        console.log(status); //200
        console.log(data); // page content
        console.log(headers); // response headers
});

Parameters

| Options | Required | Type | Parameters | Default |:--|:--:|:--: |-- |:--: | | url | ✓ | String |Target url | | | method| ✓ | String|HTTP method to use. More info here | | | Headers | | JSON Object | Pass headers to the request with a JSON format. | {"content-type": "application/json"} | | Cookies| | JSON Object | Pass cookies to the request with a JSON format | | | requestOptions| | See below |

RequestOptions

The parameters below are here for client configuration. None of these parameters will be sent. These parameters must be put in the object 'requestOptions'

| Options | Required | Type | Parameters | Default |:--|:--:|:--: | -- | :--: | | followRedirect | | boolean | Decide if we should follow the redirects | true | maxRedirect| | int| Decide the maximum number of redirects allowed | 3 | trustRedirect| | boolean | If false, headers will not be sent when a redirect happen | true

GET request

• request.get(path, headers, callback)
• request.get(path, callback)

let request = require('native-request');
request.get('https://github.com', function(err, data, status, headers) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
    console.log(status); //200
    console.log(data); // page content
    console.log(headers); // response headers
});

To add custom headers just do like this:

let request = require('native-request');

let headers = {
    "content-type": "plain/text"
}
request.get('https://github.com', headers, function(err, data, status, headers) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
    console.log(status); //200
    console.log(data); // page content
    console.log(headers); // response headers
});

POST request

• request.post(path, callback)

• request.post(path, data, callback)

• request.post(path, data, headers, callback)

To send an empty post:

let request = require('native-request');
request.post('https://github.com', function(err, data, status, headers) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
    console.log(status); //200
    console.log(data); // page content
    console.log(headers); // response headers
});

With headers and data:

let request = require('native-request');

let data = {
    "example": true,
}
let headers = {
    "content-type": "plain/text"
}
request.post('https://github.com', data, headers, function(err, data, status, headers) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
    console.log(status); //200
    console.log(data); // page content
    console.log(headers); // response headers
});

License

MIT. Copyright (c) Samuel Marchese.