Simplified HTTP requests
A nicer interface to the built-in http module.
It supports following redirects, promises, streams, retries, automagically handling gzip/deflate and some convenience options.
Created because request is bloated (several megabytes!).
Install
WARNING: Node.js 4 or higher is required for got@6 and above. For older Node.js versions use got@5.
$ npm install --save got
Usage
const fs = require('fs');
const got = require('got');
got('todomvc.com')
.then(response => {
console.log(response.body);
//=> '<!doctype html> ...'
})
.catch(error => {
console.log(error.response.body);
//=> 'Internal server error ...'
});
// Streams
got.stream('todomvc.com').pipe(fs.createWriteStream('index.html'));
// For POST, PUT and PATCH methods got.stream returns a WritableStream
fs.createReadStream('index.html').pipe(got.stream.post('todomvc.com'));
API
It's a GET request by default, but can be changed in options.
got(url, [options])
Returns a Promise for a response object with a body property, a url property with the request URL or the final URL after redirects, and a requestUrl property with the original request URL.
url
Type: string, object
The URL to request or a http.request options object.
Properties from options will override properties in the parsed url.
options
Type: object
Any of the http.request options.
body
Type: string, buffer, readableStream, object
This is mutually exclusive with stream mode.
Body that will be sent with a POST request.
If present in options and options.method is not set, options.method will be set to POST.
If content-length or transfer-encoding is not set in options.headers and body is a string or buffer, content-length will be set to the body length.
If body is a plain object, it will be stringified with querystring.stringify and sent as application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
encoding
Type: string, null
Default: 'utf8'
Encoding to be used on setEncoding of the response data. If null, the body is returned as a Buffer.
json
Type: boolean
Default: false
This is mutually exclusive with stream mode.
Parse response body with JSON.parse and set accept header to application/json.
query
Type: string, object
Query string object that will be added to the request URL. This will override the query string in url.
timeout
Type: number, object
Milliseconds to wait for a server to send response headers before aborting request with ETIMEDOUT error.
Option accepts object with separate connect and socket fields for connection and socket inactivity timeouts.
retries
Type: number, function
Default: 5
Number of request retries when network errors happens. Delays between retries counts with function 1000 * Math.pow(2, retry) + Math.random() * 100, where retry is attempt number (starts from 0).
Option accepts function with retry and error arguments. Function must return delay in milliseconds (0 return value cancels retry).
Note: if retries is number, ENOTFOUND and ENETUNREACH error will not be retried (see full list in is-retry-allowed module).
followRedirect
Type: boolean
Default: true
Defines if redirect responses should be followed automatically.
Streams
got.stream(url, [options])
stream method will return Duplex stream with additional events:
.on('request', request)
request event to get the request object of the request.
Tip: You can use request event to abort request:
got.stream('github.com')
.on('request', req => setTimeout(() => req.abort(), 50));
.on('response', response)
response event to get the response object of the final request.
.on('redirect', response, nextOptions)
redirect event to get the response object of a redirect. The second argument is options for the next request to the redirect location.
.on('error', error, body, response)
error event emitted in case of protocol error (like ENOTFOUND etc.) or status error (4xx or 5xx). The second argument is the body of the server response in case of status error. The third argument is response object.
got.get(url, [options])
got.post(url, [options])
got.put(url, [options])
got.patch(url, [options])
got.head(url, [options])
got.delete(url, [options])
Sets options.method to the method name and makes a request.
Errors
Each error contains (if available) statusCode, statusMessage, host, hostname, method and path properties to make debugging easier.
In Promise mode, the response is attached to the error.
got.RequestError
When a request fails. Contains a code property with error class code, like ECONNREFUSED.
got.ReadError
When reading from response stream fails.
got.ParseError
When json option is enabled and JSON.parse fails.
got.HTTPError
When server response code is not 2xx. Contains statusCode and statusMessage.
got.MaxRedirectsError
When server redirects you more than 10 times.
Proxies
You can use the tunnel module with the agent option to work with proxies:
const got = require('got');
const tunnel = require('tunnel');
got('todomvc.com', {
agent: tunnel.httpOverHttp({
proxy: {
host: 'localhost'
}
})
});
Cookies
You can use the cookie module to include cookies in a request:
const got = require('got');
const cookie = require('cookie');
got('google.com', {
headers: {
cookie: cookie.serialize('foo', 'bar')
}
});
Form data
You can use the form-data module to create POST request with form data:
const fs = require('fs');
const got = require('got');
const FormData = require('form-data');
const form = new FormData();
form.append('my_file', fs.createReadStream('/foo/bar.jpg'));
got.post('google.com', {
body: form
});
OAuth
You can use the oauth-1.0a module to create a signed OAuth request:
const got = require('got');
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';
got(url, {
headers: oauth.toHeader(oauth.authorize({url, method: 'GET'}, token)),
json: true
});
Unix Domain Sockets
Requests can also be sent via unix domain sockets. Use the following URL scheme: PROTOCOL://unix:SOCKET:PATH.
PROTOCOL-httporhttps(optional)SOCKET- absolute path to a unix domain socket, e.g./var/run/docker.sockPATH- request path, e.g./v2/keys
got('http://unix:/var/run/docker.sock:/containers/json');
// or without protocol (http by default)
got('unix:/var/run/docker.sock:/containers/json');
Tip
It's a good idea to set the 'user-agent' header so the provider can more easily see how their resource is used. By default, it's the URL to this repo.
const got = require('got');
const pkg = require('./package.json');
got('todomvc.com', {
headers: {
'user-agent': `my-module/${pkg.version} (https://github.com/username/my-module)`
}
});
Related
- gh-got - Convenience wrapper for interacting with the GitHub API
- travis-got - Convenience wrapper for interacting with the Travis API
Created by
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| Sindre Sorhus | Vsevolod Strukchinsky |
License
MIT © Sindre Sorhus