needle-retry

Combines needle with retry to account for unstable webservers. Thus, needle-retry will retry for a certain number of times (default 5) before giving up. Currently implements request and get. Tests currently only cover GET requests but everything should work too, as this is basically just a wrapper.

Installation

npm install needle-retry

Options

Options can be passed in as the second parameter, as an object with a property needle for needle options and a property retry for retry options. This module has a single option, fullDocument that will make it retry if a full HTML document is not received. Defaults to false. Default options:

var options = {
    needleRetry: {
        fullDocument: false
    },
    needle: {
        follow_max: 20
    },
    retry: {
        retries: 5
    }
}

Have a look at the respective doc pages for needle and retry for a list of available options.

Example

var needle = require('needle-retry');
 
needle.get('http://www.github.com', function(error, response) {
  console.log(response.body);
});

Example request

var needle = require('needle-retry');
 
var options = {
    needleRetry: {
        fullDocument: false
    },
    needle: {
        follow_max: 20
    },
    retry: {
        retries: 5
    }
}
 
var data = {
    foo: 'bar'
}
 
needle.request('get', 'http://www.github.com', data, options, function(error, response) {
  console.log(response.body);
});