AMR/node_modules/native-request

Native Request

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

• supports HTTPS
• 0 dependencies
• use callbacks

Installation

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

npm install native-request

Usage

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
});

Custom request

• *.request(path, method, callback)
• *.request(path, method,data, callback)

• *.request(path, method, data, headers, callback) To send a PUT request:

  let request = require('native-request');
  request.request('https://github.com', 'PUT', 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.request('https://github.com','PUT', 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.