mimicry

mimicry - browser-like requests

Mimicry is a node.js library designed to mimic how a browser would request the page. Useful for getting around websites that try to block spiders.

Features:

• Stores cookies
• Follows redirects
• Spoofs useragents
• Works like any other request library (sort of)

Install:

$ npm install mimicry

Usage

To use mimicry, you first have to create a mimicry instance:

var Mimicry = require('mimicry');
 
var weather = new Mimicry();

You can also pass a useragent to the constructor:

var weather = new Mimicry('Googlebot/2.1');

Then, to make a get request:

weather.get('http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2459115', function(err, data) {
    console.log(data);
});

You can also pass custom headers, like a referer:

weather.get('http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2459115', {'Referer': 'http://google.com/'}, function(err, data) {
    console.log(data);
});

To make a post request:

weather.post('http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2459115', {'test': 'data'}, function(err, data) {
    console.log(data);
});

You can do the same thing with custom headers:

weather.post('http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2459115', {'test': 'data'}, {'Referer': 'http://google.com/'}, function(err, data) {
    console.log(data);
});

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License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Andrew Rogers

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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