axios is a popular JavaScript library that allows you to make HTTP requests from a Node.js environment.
It is a promise-based library that works in both the browser and Node.js.
It is similar to the Fetch API, but with a more powerful feature set and better browser compatibility.
One of the main benefits of using axios is that it automatically transforms the response data into a JSON object,
making it easy to work with.
Axios is known for user-friendly API and support for asynchronous async/await syntax making it very accessible in web scraping.
Httpful is a simple Http Client library for PHP 7.2+.
There is an emphasis of readability, simplicity, and flexibility – basically provide the features
and flexibility to get the job done and make those features really easy to use.
Features
- Readable HTTP Method Support (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, HEAD, PATCH and OPTIONS)
- Custom Headers
- Automatic "Smart" Parsing
- Automatic Payload Serialization
- Basic Auth
- Client Side Certificate Auth
- Request "Templates"
```javascript
// axios can be used with promises:
axios.get('http://httpbin.org/json')
.then(response => {
console.log(response.data);
})
.catch(error => {
console.log(error);
});
// or async await syntax:
var resp = await axios.get('http://httpbin.org/json');
console.log(resp.data);
// to make requests concurrently Promise.all function can be used:
const results = await Promise.all([
axios.get('http://httpbin.org/html'),
axios.get('http://httpbin.org/html'),
axios.get('http://httpbin.org/html'),
])
// axios also supports other type of requests like POST and even automatically serialize them:
await axios.post('http://httpbin.org/post', {'query': 'hello world'});
// or formdata
const data = {name: 'John Doe', email: 'johndoe@example.com'};
await axios.post('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users',
querystring.stringify(data),
{
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
}
}
);
// default values like headers can be configured globally
axios.defaults.headers.common['User-Agent'] = 'webscraping.fyi';
// or for session instance:
const instance = axios.create({
headers: {"User-Agent": "webscraping.fyi"},
})
```
```javascript
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Httpful\Request;
// make GET request
$response = \Httpful\Request::get("http://httpbin.org/get")
->send();
echo $response->body;
// make POST request
$data = array('name' => 'Bob', 'age' => 35);
$response = \Httpful\Request::post("http://httpbin.org/post")
->sendsJson()
->body(json_encode($data))
->send();
echo $response->body;
// add headers or cookies
$response = \Httpful\Request::get("http://httpbin.org/headers")
->addHeader("API-KEY", "mykey")
->addHeader("Cookie", "foo=bar")
->send();
echo $response->body;
```