kiss-request

A simple and stupid node request wrapper. KISS == Keep it simple and stupid.

Inspired by nokit.request and got

Features

• Simple, very simple.
• Stupid, very stupid.
• Small, very small.
• Following redirections(3XX), but without a limitation.
• Handling gzip & deflate
• Timeout

Warning

• Use GET only.
• There are many better and more powerful choices, such as got and request.

Usage

request = require 'kiss-request'
 
# String url & Callback API 
request 'www.npmjs.com', (err, data) ->
    console.log data
 
# Object url(same as http.request) & Promise API 
request.Promise = require 'bluebird' # If a native Promise is available, you don't need to do this. 
request {host: 'www.npmjs.com', port: 80}
.then (data) ->
    console.log data
 
# The second way to use Promise API 
request 'http://www.npmjs.com', require 'bluebird'
.then () ->
 
# Set timeout (default 10000 ms) 
request {url: 'www.npmjs.com', timeout: 1000}, () ->

Notice

• If you want to decode non-utf8 text, please install iconv-lite manually.
• 4XX and 5XX are regarded as errors.

License

MIT@Jingchen Zhao