bauer-crawler-fetch

bauer-crawler-fetch

Plugin for bauer-crawler to make http requests.

Installation

npm install bauer-crawler-fetch

Usage

The popular request module is used internally to make the http requests.

module.exports = function(promise) {
  return promise.fetch("http://httpbin.org").then(function(outputFile) {
    // outputFile contains fetched content
  });
};

module.exports = function(promise) {
  return promise.return("http://httpbin.org").fetch().then(function(outputFile) {
    // outputFile contains fetched content
  });
};

Configuration

{
  workers: 1,
  slots: 1,
  delay: 0,
  request: { // default options for request
    method: "GET"
  },
  cache: { // default options for bauer-cache
    json: false,
    expires: "1d",
    file: {
      dir: ".",
      ext: "txt"
    }
  }
}

API Summary

• Promise
  • .fetch() :Promise
  • .fetch(url String) :Promise
  • .fetch(urls Array) :Promise
  • .fetch(options object) :Promise

License

MIT