gotvsneedle
Got is a lightweight and powerful HTTP client for Node.js. It is built on top of the http and https modules and provides a simple, consistent API for making HTTP requests.
Got is one of the most feature-rich http clients in NodeJS ecosystem offering http2, proxy and asynchronous support making it ideal for web scraping.
Got also supports many specific domain integrations like AWS, plugins for various public APIs like github.
Note that Got has some inconsistent behaviors when it comes to web scraping use.
For example, it normalizes http headers
which is undesired functionality in scraping and should be disabled.
needle is an HTTP client library for Node.js that provides a simple, flexible, and powerful API for making HTTP requests. It supports all major HTTP methods and has a clean and easy-to-use interface for handling responses and errors.
Highlights
Example Use
const got = require('got');
// GET requests are default and can be made calling the module as is:
const response = await got('https://api.example.com');
console.log(response.body);
// POST requests can send
const response = await got.post('https://api.example.com', {
json: { name: 'John Doe' },
});
console.log(response.body);
// handling cookies
import {CookieJar} from 'tough-cookie';
const cookieJar = new CookieJar();
await cookieJar.setCookie('foo=bar', 'https://httpbin.org');
await got('https://httpbin.org/anything', {cookieJar});
// using proxy
import got from 'got';
import {HttpsProxyAgent} from 'hpagent';
await got('https://httpbin.org/ip', {
agent: {
https: new HttpsProxyAgent({
keepAlive: true,
keepAliveMsecs: 1000,
maxSockets: 256,
maxFreeSockets: 256,
scheduling: 'lifo',
proxy: 'https://localhost:8080'
})
}
});
const needle = require('needle');
// needle supports both Promises and async/await
needle.get('https://httpbin.org/get', (err, res) => {
if (err) {
console.error(err);
return;
}
console.log(res.body);
});
const response = await needle.get('https://httpbin.org/get')
// concurrent requests can be sent using Promise.all
const results = await Promise.all([
needle.get('http://httpbin.org/html'),
needle.get('http://httpbin.org/html'),
needle.get('http://httpbin.org/html'),
])
// POST requests
const data = { name: 'John Doe' };
await needle.post('https://api.example.com', data)
// proxy
const options = {
proxy: 'http://proxy.example.com:8080'
};
await needle.get('https://httpbin.org/ip', options)
// headers and cookies
const options = {
headers: {
'Cookie': 'myCookie=123',
'X-My-Header': 'myValue'
}
};
await needle.get('https://httpbin.org/headers', options)