kusarequest

Promisified simple request module. This module focuses on chainable request.
This module is wrapped to request and bluebird.

Installation

$ npm i kusarequest

var Kusarequest = require("kusarequest");
 
new Kusarequest.get(...)

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Usage

Basic request

Kusarequest will use in the instance. And instance will request in the HTTP method.
Kusarequest support HTTP method => ["get", "head", "post", "put", "patch", "del"]

It return Promise. Promise's Argument is Kusarequest instance.

new Kusarequest().get("https://example.com").then(function(kusarequest) {
    assert.strictEqual(kusarequest.res.body, "get");
});

Request with option

Option is equivalent to the request module option.

For more information see here

new Kusarequest().get("https://example.com/option", {
  "qs": {
    "key": "get_value"
  }
})
.then(function(kusarequest) {
  assert.strictEqual(kusarequest.res.body, "get_value");
});

Request with callback

Promise to return from the callback is executed.
Callback of this it has been bound from the instance.

new Kusarequest().get("https://example.com", function(res) {
  // [this] is bound from the Kusarequest instance
  this.container = res.body + "container";
})
.then(function(kusarequest) {
  assert.strictEqual(kusarequest.container, "getcontainer");
});

Request with option and callback

Kusarequest().get("https://example.com/option", {
  "qs": {
    key: "get_value"
  }
}, function(res) {
  this.container = res.body + "container";
})
.then(function(kusarequest) {
  assert.strictEqual(kusarequest.container, "get_valuecontainer");
});

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Feature

Chaninable

Kusarequest has a method chain concept.

Kusarequest().post("https://example.com/form", {
  "form": {
    "key": "post_value"
  }
})
.then(function(kusarequest) {
  assert.strictEqual(kusarequest.res.body, "post post_value");
});

path only ok

Uri of the instance is okay only path.

Kusarequest().get("https://example.com/")
.then(function(kusarequest) {
  // this is request to https://example.com/some/path
  return kusarequest.get("/some/path");
})
.then(function(kusarequest) {
  assert.strictEqual(kusarequest.res.body, "path");
});

Continuation of cookie

Kusarequest instance will take over the cookie of the each request.
This is useful, for example, when you are scraping after login.

kusarequest.post("https://example.com/login", {
  "form": {
    "id": "id",
    "password": "password"
  }
})
.then(function (kusareq) {
  // kusareq keep logged in (cookie)
  kusareq.get(...)
})

You can also set the cookie-jar when you make the instance.

var jar;
 
new Kusarequest().post("https://example.com/login")
.then(function(kusarequest) {
  jar = kusarequest.jar(); // get logged in jar
})
 
// set logged in jar
new Kusarequest(jar).get("/after/login/pass");
  .then(function(kusarequest) {
    assert.strictEqual(kusarequest.res.body, "success");
});

Follow all redirect

Redirection of GET and non-GET HTTP method is automatically follow.

// exsample) /redirect-from -- redirect --> /redirect-to
kusarequest.get("/redirect-from")
.then(function (kusareq) {
  console.log(kusareq.url) // /redirect-to
});
 
// nod-GET redirects support by default.
kusarequest.post("/redirect-from")
.then(function (kusareq) {
  console.log(kusareq.url) // /redirect-to
});

Response history

Kusarequest instance has a history of each response to r_histories property.

Kusarequest().get(BASE_URL)
.then(function(kusareqest) {
  return kusareqest.get("/path");
})
.then(function(kusareqest) {
  return kusareqest.get("/option", {"qs": {"key": "option"}});
})
.then(function(kusareqest) {
  var bodys = kusareqest.r_histories.map(function(res) {
    return res.body;
  });
  assert.strictEqual(bodys.join(" "), "option path get");
});

Instance property and method

instance propaty is this.

property

• res - request's response.toJSON()
• raw_res - original request response
• r_history - res history
• container - Use this when you want to exceed the each [then]

method

• jar - get cookie-jar