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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.

PHP library "Requests" is an HTTP library written in PHP, for making HTTP requests. It's heavily inspired by a popular Python library called Requests and aims for the same goals of simplifying HTTP client complexities.

It abstracts the complexities of making requests behind a simple API so that you can focus on interacting with services and consuming data in your application.

Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and PATCH HTTP requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with basic arrays, and access the response data in the same way.

Requests uses cURL and fsockopen, depending on what your system has available, but abstracts all the nasty stuff out of your way, providing a consistent API.

Features:

  • International Domains and URLs
  • Browser-style SSL Verification
  • Basic/Digest Authentication
  • Automatic Decompression
  • Connection Timeouts

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 require 'vendor/autoload.php'; use Requests; // make GET request $response = Requests::get('https://httpbin.org/get'); echo $response->status_code; // make POST request $data = array('name' => 'Bob', 'age' => 35); $options = array('auth' => array('user', 'pass')); $response = Requests::post('https://httpbin.org/post', array(), $data, $options); echo $response->status_code; ```

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