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.