gotvshttp-2

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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.

Pure Ruby, framework and transport agnostic, implementation of HTTP/2 protocol and HPACK header compression with support for:

Binary framing parsing and encoding
Stream multiplexing and prioritization
Connection and stream flow control
Header compression and server push
Connection and stream management
And more... see API docs

Protocol specifications:

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (RFC 7540)
HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2 (RFC 7541)

Highlights

http2asyncpopularextendibletypescriptproxy

http2

Example Use

```python 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' }) } }); ```

```ruby require 'http/2' # GET request client = HTTP2::Client.new response = client.get("https://httpbin.org/get") puts response.body # POST reuqest data = { name: "value" } response = client.post("https://www.example.com", data) ```

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