req-fast

req-fast

This module is designed to be the fast, lightweight way to fetch the web content(HTML stream). it supports:

• Gzip
• Cookie
• Auto-redirect
• Proxy

Installation

npm install req-fast

Usage

see test or examples folder for a complete example

var req = require('req-fast');
req(options)

when options is instance of String, it means the URI of web page that to be requested. otherwise it should be an object, including:

• uri || url uri of web page.
• method http method, GET as default.
• headers http headers(key-value pairs, such as {'Connection':'keep-alive', 'Cache-Control':'max-age=0'}).
• maxRedirects the maximum number of redirects to follow(3 as default).
• disableGzip request compressed content from server and automatic decompress response content, if this option sets to true, this feature will be disabled.
• proxy the proxy including all the options from tunnel proxy.

Stream pipe

License

Copyright 2014 Tjatse

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.