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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.

Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client library that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services. It allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests with various methods like GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and others.

Guzzle also supports sending both synchronous and asynchronous requests, caching, and even has built-in support for OAuth 1.0a. Additionally, it can handle different HTTP errors and handle redirects automatically. It also has built-in support for serializing and deserializing data using formats like JSON and XML, as well as sending multipart file uploads.

Overall Guzzle is an easy to use and powerful library for working with HTTP in PHP.

Example Use


```javascript 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) ```
```php use GuzzleHttp\Client; // Create a client session: $client = new Client(); // can also set session details like headers $client = new Client([ 'headers' => [ 'User-Agent' => 'webscraping.fyi', ] ]); // GET request: $response = $client->get('http://httpbin.org/get'); // print all details var_dump($response); // or the important bits printf("status: %s\n", $response->getStatusCode()); printf("headers: %s\n", json_encode($response->getHeaders(), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)); printf("body: %s", $response->getBody()->getContents()); // POST request $response = $client->post( 'https://httpbin.org/post', // for JSON use json argument: ['json' => ['query' => 'foobar', 'page' => 2]] // or formdata use form_params: // ['form_params' => ['query' => 'foobar', 'page' => 2]] ); // For ASYNC requests getAsync function can be used: $promise1 = $client->getAsync('https://httpbin.org/get'); $promise2 = $client->getAsync('https://httpbin.org/get?foo=bar'); // await it: $results = Promise\unwrap([$promise1, $promise2]); foreach ($results as $result) { echo $result->getBody(); } // or add promise callback Promise\each([$promise1, $promise2], function ($response, $index, $callable) { echo $response->getBody(); }); ```

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