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.
HTTParty is a Ruby library that makes it easy to work with HTTP requests and responses. It is built on top of the Ruby standard library's Net::HTTP and provides a simple, easy-to-use interface for making requests and handling responses.
One of the main features of HTTParty is its ability to automatically parse response bodies as JSON, XML, or other formats. This allows developers to easily access the data returned by an API without having to manually parse the response.
```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 'httparty'
# get request:
response = HTTParty.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
puts response.body
puts response.code
puts response.message
puts response.headers.inspect
# post request
response = HTTParty.post('http://httpbin.org/post',
:body => { :title => 'foo', :body => 'bar', :userId => 1 }.to_json,
:headers => { 'Content-Type' => 'application/json' } )
puts response.body
```