Native Request Light

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Native Request Light is the Light version of the Native Request package.

Native Request add features like cookies management or 300 redirects.. You can take a look here: https://github.com/ZaralDev/native-request/

Native Request [Light] is a simple module that makes you able to create native node.js requests supports https.

supports HTTPS
0 dependencies
use callbacks

Installation
Usage

Installation

Install the package with npm

npm install native-request-light

Usage

JSON request (recommended)

request.request(options, callback)

Easy

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

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-light');

request.request({
        url: "http://github.com/",
        method: 'POST',
        headers: {
            authorization: "Token121",
            "content-type": "application/json"
        }
    }, function(err, data, status, headers) {
        console.log(status); //200
        console.log(data); // page content
        console.log(headers); // response headers
});

Parameters

Options	Required	Type	Parameters
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.

GET request

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

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

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-light');
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-light');

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
});

Package detail

native-request-light

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