koa-http-request

Simplified HTTP request for Koa(2.0+).

Install

npm install koa-http-request --save

Usage

const koa = require('koa');
const koaRequest = require('koa-http-request');
const app = new koa();
 
app.use(koaRequest({
  json: true, //automatically parsing of JSON response
  timeout: 3000,    //3s timeout
  host: 'https://api.github.com'
}));
 
app.use(async (ctx, next) => {
    let repo = await ctx.get('/repos/junyiz/koa-http-request', null, {
        'User-Agent': 'koa-http-request'
    });
    ctx.body = 'repos id: ' + repo.id + '\nrepos name: ' + repo.full_name;
});
 
app.listen(process.env.PORT || 8090);

Options

json

Type: 'Boolean' Default: false

Parse response body with JSON.parse and set accept header to application/json.

timeout

Type: number Default: 30000

Milliseconds to wait for a server to send response headers before aborting request with ETIMEDOUT error.

host

Type: 'String' Default: ''

API

ctx.get(url[, params[, headers]])

ctx.head(url[, params[, headers]])

ctx.post(url[, params[, headers]])

ctx.put(url[, params[, headers]])

ctx.delete(url[, params[, headers]])

License

MIT