fishingrod

A simple module for making http requests, depends on nothing but http and https.

NOTE: this is not intended to be a full-featured http package, or a full-tested module. This is a simple, working http module, that permits very simple requests. Do not use in production without testing.

Simple Example

const fishingrod = require('fishingrod');

fishingrod.fish({
	https:true,
	host: 'example.com',
	path: '/obj/1'
},
function(err, st, res){
	console.log(res);
});

fishingrod.fish({
	https:true,
	host: 'example.com',
	path: '/obj/2'
}).then(function(res){
	console.log(res.response);
});

API

fishingrod works in a very simple way using different parameters. A simple request will typically use https, host, path, method and data & headers if needed.

Some more parameters are also available if you would ever need them, and direct url pasting (request style) is also applicable.

Parameter	Type	Description
https	Boolean	Sets https: or http: as the protocol
method	String	Sets the method for the request. All usual HTTP methods are accepted (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE ...). MUST BE uppercase
host	String	The host for the request. Ex: api.google.com
path	String	The path for the request. Ex /api/v3.0/something?this=is&a=query (Query is optional, but for POST requests it won't be extracted from data)
data	String or Object	The data to send to the server. If the data is an object, it will be JSON.stringifyed for you.
headers	Object	A collection of headers for the request. Ex: {'Content-Type':'application/json', 'X-My-Header': 'something custom'}
parse	Boolean	If the response contains header Content-Type: application/json it will be JSON.parsed before giving you control of the answer
redir	Boolean	If the response is a 3xx Http code and contains Location: header, will automatically redirect before giving you control
encoding	String	Sets the encoding for the response. Default is 'utf8'
debug	Boolean	Sets the debug option, logging errors and every request
join	Char	If using Object Data && Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, will be used as the join char between key-value pairs. Ex: plep=56${join}plop=57
separator	Char	If using Object Data && Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, will be used as the join char between each key and its value. Ex: plop${separator}56

Utility methods

You can also call fishingrod with only a url using the utility methods. These are .get, .post, .put, .delete, ._method. They all take (url [STRING], data[OBJECT], headers[OBJECT]) as params, except _method which takes (method, [STRING CAPITALS], url [STRING], data[OBJECT], headers[OBJECT]).

const fishingrod = require('fishingrod');

fishingrod.get('http://google.com', {query:'Bottomatik chatbots'}, {'Accept':'application/pdf'});