rqt

rqt

rqt is a Node.js request library. Send GET and POST requests at ease.

async rqt(url: string, options: Options = {}): string

Call this function to request a web page.

const rqt = require('rqt')

(async () => {
  const res = await rqt('http://rqt.adc.sh/')
  // web page contents returned
})()

It is possible to pass some options as the second argument.

const rqt = require('rqt')

(async () => {
  const bufferRes = await rqt('http://rqt.adc.sh/', {
    headers: {
      'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Node.js) rqt',
    },
    binary: true,
  })
})()

headers: object

An object to be assigned as request headers.

binary: boolean

If set to true, a Buffer will be returned instead of a string.

async rqt(url: string, { data: string, contentType: string }): string

Send a post request (with default JSON content type and calculated Content-Length). Assign more headers with headers option.

const rqt = require('rqt')

(async () => {
  const res = await rqt('http://rqt.adc.sh/post/', {
    data: JSON.stringify({ data: 'test-post-data' }),
    contentType: 'application/json', // default is assumed json
  })
})()

const rqt = require('rqt')

(async () => {
  const res = await rqt('http://rqt.adc.sh/post/headers', {
    data: 'test post data',
    contentType: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', // non-json request
    headers: {
      'x-token': 'token123',
    },
  })
})()

ES5

The package uses some newer language features. For your convenience, it's been transpiled to be compatible with Node 4. You can use the following snippet.

const rqt = require('rqt/es5')

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Changelog

1.2.1

• [fix] Also parse json if response header includes charset.